To further your point, most people have probably heard this one already regarding Hunter S. Thompson. > While working, he used a typewriter to copy F. Scott Fi

To further your point, most people have probably heard this one already regarding Hunter S. Thompson. > While working, he used a typewriter to copy F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in order to learn about the writing styles of the authors. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Early_journalism_career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Early_journa...