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
pain real sleep
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.
distance loneliness book
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
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.