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
memories world stuff
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
death dream selfish
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
mean doors people
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
kids opposites goal
Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.
way
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
crazy heart bruises
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
knowing remembrance luck
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
hunting people hobbies
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
dream mean eye
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
reality people farming
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
missing problem i-missed-you
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
vegetables healthy meals
You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a process of reeducation, just because Americans aren't familiar with how to cook vegetables anymore.
stories mets life-story
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
happiness positivity thinking
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.