10 writers who resist modern technology
Posted by staff / February 15, 2014
Still lulled by the romantic sound of typewriter keys or the lure of the perfect pen?
It appears you’re not alone, and using throwback technology isn’t necessarily an impediment to success if these ten writers are anything to go by.
Quentin Tarantino
The famed director, who writes his own screenplays, pens his masterpieces with actual pens.
“My ritual is, I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It’s a ceremony. I go to a stationery store and buy a notebook — and I don’t buy like 10. I just buy one and then fill it up. Then I buy a bunch of red felt pens and a bunch of black ones, and I’m like, ‘These are the pens I’m going to write Grindhouse with,'” he said in an interview with Reuters.
Danielle Steel
The illustrious romance novelist, currently the bestselling author alive, has one mainstay she uses to type up her more than 100 books.
An interview with the Roanoke Times revealed Steel writes all her books on a 1946 Olympia manual typewriter, during a 20-hour writing shift.
“There are people who show up nicely dressed, they work from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. I can’t do that,” she says. “Sometimes I don’t leave my house for two or three weeks.”
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