"I don't type don't even own a typewriter. I used to say 'I can't type' until a friend pointed out that anyone with one or more fingers could type, that obviously means I don't want to type. I like the feel of my pen moving across the paper, I like the near-silence. I like being able to tell what my mood I was in when I wrote a particular sentence. My poet friend Robert told me once that somewhere in England there is a private typewriter museum, full of ingenious machines. We were discussing whether people twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now will ever stand enthralled in a room full of word-processors and computer printouts. He thinks not. He thinks that someday there will be a museum for that stuff and the people who go to look at it will go because they are interested in displays of industrial design. It won't be the same thing at all, he says, for those machines will tell us nothing about the writer." --excerpt from "Graven Images" by Audrey Thomas 0-670-84769-0

[BCBW, Summer, 1993]