What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
“In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.”
“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”