Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. — 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 always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — 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
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to… — 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
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else?” — 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
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — 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
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Everything is possible again.” It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Safran Foer’s 10 Rules for Writing: 1.Tragedies make great literature; unfathomable catastrophes (the Holocaust, 9/11) are even better – try to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — 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
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them. — 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
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because… — 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
