"Why, after all, do writers write? What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and..."

“Why, after all, do writers write? What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and representing the world? It has little to do with technology although everything to do with narrative, which is a purpose that, on the surface, technology also seems to share. The difference is that the writer creates narrative with intention, whereas technology merely gathers, or processes, information, leaving interpretation, analysis, up to us.”

- Let’s just say David L. Ulin doesn’t think Joyce w...