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
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.
dream baby afterlife
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
way
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was
deranged
She is deranged, but so so playful.
struggle might desperate
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
beautiful dream meetings
She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
writing dark light
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
together cracked
We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.
writing grandfather would-be
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.