Ti-i-i-ime is on my side, yes it is

Just thinking, after a long hard trip and staring down the muzzle of another: If a good writer only puts out a story or two a year, is the writer really all that good? (I like that. Like, if a subscriber can only read a paper's best writer once a year, is he or she really the paper's best writer? And if a tree falls on that writer, but no one sees it, can you still try a narrative? And how long can one go without publishing a story and still be invited as a featured speaker at a NWW?)

Really, though, isn't speed at least a part of this business? Could I win a pulitzer if I had 6 months to report, 3 months to think and 3 months to write?