“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.” WritingFirstsHomeUsedAdventureComputerAtomsBubblesTeensPrimitiveAcorns Author:Graham Nelson
“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.” NeedsWritingI CanHoursMy OwnMastersCoupleSolitudeComputerChapters Author:Stuart Woods
“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.” WritingWholeHandsBigsGuyComputerGadgets Author:Vince Vaughn
“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.” WritingYearsPlayWould BeSchoolTypeComputerEightPlaywright Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.” NeedsWritingHumansMayMeanImportantAbleProcessHuman BeingsComputerProgramBasesOriginalsCodeAgain And AgainRequirementsBugsOngoingFunctionality Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.” IfsThinkingWritingBookDifferentWholeAgeWonderCuttingComputerParagraphRevisingDeleting Author:Megan McCafferty
“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
“I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.” ThinkingWritingComputerAppreciateToolsUltimate Author:Sherry Turkle
“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.” WayWritingSelfRunningAbleSchoolYoungNovelFitTenComputerPagesMovedLengthPensElectricAmazedFountainNotebookTypewritersPretentiousDipMoved OnDiscsProcessorsGambitFountain PensBallpoint Pens Author:Charles de Lint
“I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.” PeopleKnowsWritingLongComputer Author:Paris Hilton
“When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.” IfsWritingSongComputerTestsGuitarProgrammingDisguiseMisleadAcousticsSampleAcoustic Guitar Author:Martin Gore