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
love-is want
That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
ends loses
In the end, everyone loses everyone.
feels everything-is-illuminated
To feel alone is to be alone.
beautiful world relief
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
yesterday turns wanted
Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.
morning tired wife
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
writing heart joy
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.
morning grateful eye
He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.
voice broken handsome
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
song sad-music made
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
invention ends loses
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
years space moments
Years were passing through the spaces between moments.
want sometimes disappear
Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
beautiful
Nothing is beautiful and true.