Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
Writing is a communication.
I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.