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
beautiful book reality
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
couple animal simple
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
our-love affliction cures
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
life-is
Life is scarier than death.
here-i-am able too-much
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.
mending explaining
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
imagine happened universe
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
grandma grandmother cooking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
writing ideas important
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
hands philosopher cruelty
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
trying way sensitive
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
football running wall
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.
dream rain animal
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
moving people world
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.