A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory. . . dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.