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
confront lies telling
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
bad choices front goal perfect recognize somehow street stuff time
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
reminds
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.
deranged
She is deranged, but so so playful.
sophisticated chickens deals
Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
making-love together doe
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
holes spaniels
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
meat vegetarian casts
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
making-love firsts doe
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
turkeys torture
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
happenings
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
shells saws
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me
answer god word
I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.
animal children eating inspired
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.