Quotas really are everywhere in real life too, but, as you say, they are paired with word limits. Writing to a particular length is an important skill for profe

Quotas really are everywhere in real life too, but, as you say, they are paired with word limits. Writing to a particular length is an important skill for professional writers. Novels, non-fiction books, short stories, magazine articles, newspaper articles, all have very specific (and fairly narrow) acceptable ranges for word count.