Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say... — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
![“SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of…” quote by Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/52e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_anxiety_sadnesses-of-the-intellect-sadness-of-be_614773.jpg)
