If you want to study writing, read Dickens
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.