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
school ideas curious
I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.
brain quiet made
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
writing
Let love write on you for awhile.
doe everything-is-illuminated
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
writing long intuition
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.
leaving want what-you-deserve
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
i-hate-you missing loving-you
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
regret mistake made
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
animal issues people
Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.
understanding cruelty ability
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
thinking
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.
morning memories shadow
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?
sorry
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
suffering matter taste
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?