Get up and go to work
June 18th
In a recent “Talk of the Town,” playwright David Mamet revealed his dedication to Clairefontaine notebooks—and longhand composition: “I hate the computer… I hate their spell-check. I won’t ever do e-mail.”
(He does sometimes use a typewriter.)
“I’m afraid of only two things,” Mamet said, “Being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work.”
No writerly angst for him, thankyouverymuch…
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 am
Wow I admire his drive and vision. And I respect his rejection of the computer! I use e-mail to keep in touch with people I’m half a world away from, but I still use pen and paper for my notebooks, journals and planners. Nothing like putting pen to paper for that comfort-factor.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I know — I used to write far more letters by hand; now it’s almost always by email. And how nice to get a hand-written letter… I’ll never give up paper notebooks, though.