Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — 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
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?… — 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
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You… — 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
