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
choices world changed
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
book past light
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.
mom lonely grandma
Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone
being-sad knows everything-is-illuminated
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
past infinite paralyzed
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
artist cages beckett
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
pay pages attention
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
quality meat eating
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
appreciate people tasks
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
hate mean i-hate
I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
thinking our-world together
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
book quiet internet
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
sweet morning coffee
Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.
essentials stage continuation
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?