“The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.”
“To this day I have a profound mistrust of the word processor. I have to type it or write it first, screen it and only then enter it for posterity onto the word processor.”
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”
“I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.”
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”