It has been many years since I read my paperback copy of this. Some memorable quotes:<p>> Don't read, study.<p>> Inspiration, the high-strung condition in which emotion, eloquence, music, or merely strong coffee can place us... reveals to us whole regions in our souls which have nothing in common with the sandy barrenness of our daily existence.<p>> Social intercourse ... is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.<p>> Some people who think freely and charmingly in speaking seem to put their minds in a straitjacket at the moment they begin to write.