Fact · Typing and writing speed
500words per day
A list of writers' daily targets gives Graham Greene's daily target as 500 words.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Graham Greene: 500 words a day”
Word counts: how many words famous writers wrote a day, The Novelry, The Novelry, n.d., Daily word targets list.
Open the original- What it measures
- Greene is one of the few writers on the list whose target is well below the 2,000 words of Stephen King.
- What it does not show
- A reported target from a blog list, not a measured average.