Best Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
- Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Feel
- For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time. Doctor
- I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. Always Write
- I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. Inspirational
- I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. Constrain
- 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 meeting me. Assume
- I've never particularly liked bankers. Bankers
- I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They… Across
- Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. Anything Else
- The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. Big
- Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write… End
- Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids… Analogies
- As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. Convinced
- Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. Book
- It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. Amendment
- Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. Animal
- If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well. Archery
- It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people. Becoming
- When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. Absolute
- Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Doe
- People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what… Angry
- All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. All
- As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. Attention
- Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. Better
- Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. Children
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