Quotations:
"Proofreading is what I hate. I detest editing and one of the things I’ve had to learn with more difficulty than almost anything else in the course of learning how to write is that you have to proofread and you have to edit.
"I do not use a spell checker because it’s more annoying than helpful, I find. I certainly don’t use a grammar checker because I am the syntactician here. Nobody’s going to tell me–-no stupid machine is going to tell me–-how to write a sentence. But, yes, you do have to proofread and there is no way for it not to be obnoxious."
"Maybe I am a big ol' luddite after all. 'Cause I really do get ideas together with a pencil and lined paper. I like that part of the process a lot. Just putting things together and seeing if I can make an outline, make things cohere. I like writing that first draft because it's nice to see that outline translated into something intelligible. But second drafts, the editing, is loathsome. I don't like doing that." (from 24:28)
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- Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud’s Case of Dora (with James C. Coyne) (1993)
- The Language War (2000)