Jan 11, 2012
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Who Word-Processed First? Professor’s History Has Writers Staking Their Claims - NYTimes.com “I think there’s a great deal of nonsense about computers and writers,” Hersey, who died in 1993, told The Paris Review. “The machine corrupts the writer, unless you write with a pencil you haven’t chosen the words, and so on. But it has made revision much more inviting to me.”

Who Word-Processed First? Professor’s History Has Writers Staking Their Claims - NYTimes.com

“I think there’s a great deal of nonsense about computers and writers,” Hersey, who died in 1993, told The Paris Review. “The machine corrupts the writer, unless you write with a pencil you haven’t chosen the words, and so on. But it has made revision much more inviting to me.”
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