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If I can quote the book Oath Of Fealty (Jerry Pournelle/Larry Niven) - "There's a lot of ways of being human."
The Olympia typewriter. <shrug> Why do some people bowhunt in the age of high-powered rifles? It's a tool he likes and understands, so he can focus on what he's writing. Hey, I still run some Atari 800 games, 25 years old, on an emulator, because I like them....
As to liking/disliking the artist, vis-a-vis his/her creation. If I like a piece of art, should I change my mind about it, just because the artist is a deficit personality? The artist, no matter how deficit, did something that few can do, i.e. make a piece of art that I like. And that liking is for the piece of art, not the artist.
The creation of rock-n-roll put anger, rage, and other negative emotions front and center in music for the first time in popular music (I'm deliberately ignoring Wagner). At the time, a lot of people thought that was evil. Some still do. And it was certainly different... Ellison makes his art about pain, pure and unadulterated. I read his works very sparingly. But, like rock-n-roll, he has added a totally different color to the writing pallette, and I respect that. Few writers accomplish that, even among the scores of successful writers.
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