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
“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
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in… — 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
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into… — 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
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
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — 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
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And… — 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
