>So I'm wondering - what is it about the screen vs. the page? Is it
>just that I'm from a generation raised on print, habituated to the
>idea that serious writing is ink on paper and stuff on the screen is
>basically just news or gossip, totally in-the-moment stuff? Or is it
>something about the media themselves? Anyone else have this experience?
Can anyone imagine Jean Genet using a word processor?
Here's J.G. Ballard from a short essay called "How I Write":
>I don't use a word processor. I was already too old by the time they
>came in, and I don't like staring at a screen.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article439694.ece
In another interview Ballard said:
>The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand and
>then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a
>computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a
>great book has yet been written on computer.
>
>I have worked at this desk for the past 47 years. All my novels have
>been written on it, and old papers of every kind have accumulated
>like a great reef.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/09/writers.rooms.jg.ballard