Gunter Grass: Computers Suck

Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass is quoted in Wired News.

"I have nothing against computers," he said. "My secretary uses a computer and that's very useful for dates, and special things collected. But for manuscript work, it's too quick for me. Perhaps I am wrong, but I get every day one or two books sent by publishing houses that they want me to read.... After 10 pages I can say if they are written by a computer or not."

The novelist and artist also encouraged writers to be politically active.