Joan Didion On Writing As Scultpture

I just got a copy of her Year Of Magical Thinking and have been perusing some online interviews. Just came across this old salon.com interview with a fascinating comment:

"Before I started working on a computer," Didion tells Dave Eggers, "writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it."

She's right, of course. Who hasn't been transformed by the wonders of Cut and Paste?