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
fiction feels reader
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
feelings would-be way
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.
wings needs shirts
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?
rip opposites people
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.
opposites trying want
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
doors hands color
She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, It certainly tastes like red. Yes, it is red, isn't it? Seems so. She buried her head in her hands. But couldn't it be just a bit more red?
matter nothing-matters eating-animals
If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.
writing space stories
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
disappointment lost
I'd lost count of the disappointments.
evil saws next
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.
end-of-the-world world ends
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
grandfather faces window
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
truthfulness nomadic
We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?
order racism decision
It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.