Off topic a bit, but Julie mentioned Asimov and LeGuin.
Asimov, who published an astounding amount, didn't hide that volume was his highest value. Part of his advice for writing prolifically was not to care whether the work was as good as one could make it. He claimed believably that once a piece had gone twice through his typewriter, he was done with it. When he took up a word processor--which he wrote about doing--he probably became even lazier. And a rumor says that some of what he published under his own name was written by others, for pay, based on ideas he provided.
LeGuin gave what was probably the best reading I've ever attended. Afterward, at least two of us, independently, rushed to the university library to find the New Yorker in which one of the stories she read had first appeared. We met in the stacks.
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