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
clear draw good hard life necessary
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
life-is
Life is scarier than death.
boots matter life-is
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
life smart book
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness...
sadness growing life-learning
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
life-learning feels everything-is-illuminated
I spent my life learning to feel less.
real book real-life
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
life thinking limits
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
stories mets life-story
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
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.
life feelings emptiness
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
life i-hate-you weight
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
art
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
food longer obsessed obsession price sad sort
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.