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
artist cages beckett
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
dog horse cows
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
children book hero
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
prayer philosophy book
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
pay pages attention
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
identity culture habit
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
vegetarianism choices made
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
children eye space
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)
writing boots letters
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
boots heavy minutes
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
beautiful nice would-be
You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.
secret holes middle
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
coffee growth afraid-of-death
Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
play wish boots
I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat