The Secret Life of a Computer Writer

Woody Allen never owned a computer, instead completing all his writing free from electronic distraction on a German-Olympia SM-3 manual typewriter. Mark Twain wrote much of the adventures of Tom Sawyer in a shed on the property of the quarry farm in New York where he was spending the summer. Bill Gates famously conducted think-weeks twice a year during which he would isolate himself to do nothing but read and think big thoughts. Neil Stevenson, the acclaimed cyberpunk author who helped form our popular conception of the Internet age, is near impossible to reach electronically.