“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
