You Need To Read Kurt Vonnegut

Tell me this isn't brilliant writing and you'll only expose your ignorance:

"Listen:

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another in 1941. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between."

What I wouldn't give to write one paragraph that well just once in my life. And he does it about 10 or 15 times a novel.