In his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe for best screenplay, Larry McMurtry “thanked his constant companion during the lonely process of writing.”

“Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius,” McMurtry said.

source: ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Gets 4 Golden Globes, AP, January 16, 2005