diff --git a/spacy/cli/templates/quickstart_training.jinja b/spacy/cli/templates/quickstart_training.jinja
index 674099abc..0071f1b1a 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/templates/quickstart_training.jinja
+++ b/spacy/cli/templates/quickstart_training.jinja
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ factory = "tok2vec"
 @architectures = "spacy.MultiHashEmbed.v1"
 width = ${components.tok2vec.model.encode.width}
 rows = {{ 2000 if optimize == "efficiency" else 7000 }}
-also_embed_subwords = {{ true if has_letters else false }}
-also_use_static_vectors = {{ true if optimize == "accuracy" else false }}
+also_embed_subwords = {{ "true" if has_letters else "false" }}
+also_use_static_vectors = {{ "true" if optimize == "accuracy" else "false" }}
 
 [components.tok2vec.model.encode]
 @architectures = "spacy.MaxoutWindowEncoder.v1"
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ initial_rate = 5e-5
 [training.train_corpus]
 @readers = "spacy.Corpus.v1"
 path = ${paths.train}
-max_length = {{ 500 if hardware == "gpu" else 0 }}
+max_length = {{ 500 if hardware == "gpu" else 2000 }}
 
 [training.dev_corpus]
 @readers = "spacy.Corpus.v1"