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
bankers
I've never particularly liked bankers.
disappointment real book
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
definitions done constrain
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
writing office needs
I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
writing needs
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
doctors long waste
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
life-learning feels everything-is-illuminated
I spent my life learning to feel less.
self profound doubt
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.
art writing criticism
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
hurt people
People hurt each other. That's what people do.
doe world causes
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.
people feelings littles
People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.
stories values
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
want kind persons
We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...