Five million words in 50 years on an Olivetti typewriter →
Patricia Cohen on the NYTimes.com:
Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable Olivetti manual typewriter he bought in a Knoxville, Tenn., pawnshop around 1963 for $50.
This makes me look at all the tools I use to write: WriteRoom, TextMate, MarsEdit, TinyAlarm, Dropbox and MacBook, and feel ashamed.
