Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
Source: Introduction to And Other Stories, 1968.
-- John O'Hara, (Jan 31 1905-1970), US novelist, short-story writer; His fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s-1940s; wrote Appointment at Samarra.