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atombender • yesterday at 8:48 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Sorry to break it to you, but there are many, many novelists who prefer to write longhand!

Some notable examples I remember include J. R. R. Tolkien, Patrick O'Brian (who wrote all 21 books in the Aubrey-Maturin series by hand, and claimed at one point to write with "ink and quill"), Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Ursula LeGuin, and Truman Capote.