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What about ascetic writing?

>a woman rose to ask [Robert Graves] a question. Did he, she wondered, write his poems on the typewriter? It seemed a silly, trivial question in the circumstances, but Graves treated it very seriously. ''No, madam,'' he replied, ''I have never learned to use a typewriter, and I have warned my daughters against learning to use this machine. I do not, as a matter of fact, favor a fountain pen, either. I use the old steel nib that has to be dipped in a pot of ink, and I find that a good nib takes me nicely through 4,000 pages of manuscript before it has to be changed.''