Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foeris an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals. He teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 February 1977
CountryUnited States of America
sadness release
Sadness of love without release.
found figures stills
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.
together cracked
We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.
grandfather
Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
writing dark light
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
powerful mean people
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
looks look-up dictionary
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
animal feet might
Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.
matter nothing-matters eating-animals
If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.
sleep noise pretending
While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
smart loneliness writing
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
growing-up real kids
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
thinking convinced ifs
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
evil saws next
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.