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
want said
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
baseball children animal
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
different done world
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
spending getting-to-know-each-other ifs
What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?
done sickness
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
thinking names people
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
answers ifs
If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
war night boredom
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
timepieces
How did her life live itself without her.
stones empty pitcher
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
kindness exercise compassion
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
children responsibility animal
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
night blue sky
The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.
running hurt laughter
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?