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
animal who-i-am fiction
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.
children matter my-children
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
animal air hands
Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
years joy hundred
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
writing thinking risk
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
love wall fall
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
family hate mean
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
lying opportunity plates
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
believe talking people
None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way [George W.] Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.
hunting archery thrill
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
life regret future
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
hurt buried hurt-me
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
jobs fun moving
My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?
food safety responsible
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.