time: 10:14 p.m.
about: writer's
I wish I could write like Jonathan Franzen. This guy is an amazing writer. One of my favorite authors of all time, second only to David Sedaris. It makes me wonder how this much genius can come out of Webster Groves High School. I just started reading his newest book, a collection of essays entitled How To Be Alone. Heck, I wish I could at least write like a book reviewer so I could give this literary work the praise it deserves. Anyway, as I look over my poorly written personal narrative, I only wish that I could write better. The only type of books I read anymore are all personal narratives. David Sedaris, Matthew Klam, Sam Pickering, Jonathan Franzen, they're all my influences for my writings. I leave you with a quote by Franzen (from How To Be Alone) that will make perfect sense to anyone ever forced to describe a childhood memory (as I am now).
"One of the great adaptive virtues of our brains, the feature that makes our gray matter so much smarter than any machine yet devised...is our ability to forget almost everything that has ever happened to us. I retain general, largely categorical memories of the past (a year spent in Spain; various visits to Indian restaurants on East Sixth Street) but relatively few specific episodic memories. Those memories that I do retain I tend to revisit and, thereby, strengthen. They become literally—morphologically, electrochemically—part of the architecture of my brain."
I feel another idea coming on,
Drew
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