“I took out my notebook and jotted down what I’d done in the past seven hours: got water, had lunch, put up tent, took bath. But when I thought about writing confessionally, in an ‘I’ voice, I found that I was too self-conscious. Apparently,in the past thirty-five years, I’d become so accustomed to narrativizing myself, to experiencing my life as a story, that I could now use journals only for problem-solving and self-investigation. Even at fifteen, in Idaho, I hadn’t written from within my despair, but only after I was safely over it, and now, all the more so, the stories, that mattered to me where the ones told— selected, clarified— in retrospect.”
Jonathan Franzen on his voice in “Farther Away”, The New Yorker
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