“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.” WritingHumansBehindsImagineFrontsInternetComputerMessagesMiceEmailKeyboardsTyping Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.” PastFormGamesDangerListeningComputerLowsImpactEndurePhonesVariousHeavyFinishedChecksLoudOnlineListenersTechnologicalMiceTelephonesClicksPhone CallsAdventTypingComputer GamesBuzzers Author:Sandra Tsing Loh
“I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!” IfsKnowsStoriesComputerNotesStrikesVacationDocumentsTypingNotepads Author:Franny Armstrong
“Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.” WritingSometimesComputerLonelySatIsolatedSolitaryDesksTyping Author:Paul Kane
“Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?” MindCharacterLanguageBrainWonderNovelCreativeFrontsComputerCreatingSittingScarySeedsPlotTyping Author:Elizabeth George
“I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.” IfsWritingFirstsSelfTypeComputerConsciousRoughEditingSelf ConsciousTypingRough Drafts Author:Barack Obama
“I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.” ThinkingWritingChangedComputerTyping Author:David Sedaris
“I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.” WritingKindArtDifferentDoneFeelingsReadingNovelComputerShort StoryTypingInsincere Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“I'm bullish on writing. Movies, radio, television, and now digital media - everything was supposed to push us away from text, to video or "back" to speech. First, there's no going back. We're always stumbling forward. Second, writing is invincible. Thirty years ago, we thought we'd all be talking to our computers; instead, we're all typing on our phones.” WritingComputerInvincibleTypingDigital Media Author:Tim Carmody