I dont think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you aint desperate at some point, you aint interesting. – Jim Carrey
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories. – Ron Rash
The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. – Alex Jason [Popularized by Adam Savage in MythBusters. Supposedly, Karl Kruszeln