Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

About Jonathan Safran Foer:

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Eating Animals (2009). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

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You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and pil...

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To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

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It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

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As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give...

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When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

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As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

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Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

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Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

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I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

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I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

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My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

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I've never particularly liked bankers.

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It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

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Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

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Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

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Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Safran Foer
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist