"At whose feet must the blame be laid for this? Of course the fault is my own, but I prefer to blame someone else. I prefer to blame books. Books, books, books, books. …Goddamn, I read so many books. I read all the standard books that hipsters read. I read the books, but I idolized the authors, not the writing. Someday, I thought, I’d grow up to be an alcoholic writer just like them." Notes