"There was something about linking words together that had a hold on me and I would sit in my bedroom with piles of scrap paper and write poems and stories in longhand for hours. So when other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation. Imagine how thrilled I was on my fifteenth birthday when I received that second-hand Smith & Corona as a gift. I can still hear the clickety-clack as I struck those keys for the first time."--Carol Hoenig, author of Without Grace, recalling her first typewriter in a piece on Huffington Post, inspired by the story about Cormac McCarthy's typewriter (Shelf Awareness, December 1, 2009).
