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
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
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — 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
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
“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can… — 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
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
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. — 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
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 always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — 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 was engaged to Fitzgerald's sister!" "Who's Fitzgerald?" "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, my boy! A Great Author! A Great Author!" "Oops."… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? — 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 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
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I ripped the page from my book - "I don't speak, I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, 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
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
“I ripped the pages out of the book. I reversed the order, so the last one was first, and the first was… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
