Digital Avoidance Quotes

I don't go on social media.

I don't read social media.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

I am not very comfortable with Facebook and Twitter, and that's why I've kept myself away from such things.

I avoided the computer generation for a very long time.

I don't do social media.

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I don't read online... I need a physical book in my hand.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

I try to stay away from the Internet.

Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

I do use a laptop, but I'm very technophobic. I've never downloaded anything. I've never bought anything on Amazon. I'm really ridiculous. I don't know what it is.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.