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About Jonathan Safran Foer
American novelist
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist and writer. He is associated with contemporary American fiction and has 239 quotes on the site. He is known for the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, as well as the non-fiction works Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. He also teaches creative writing at New York University. His writing often moves between fiction and nonfiction, with attention to family, memory, and environmental concern.
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- “She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent,…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My grea…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I…”Jonathan Safran Foer
Vegetarianism: more sayings
- “There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals…”Fakeer Ishavardas
- “Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it alwa…”Sharon Gannon
- “I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.”Bernhard Goetz
Non-Fiction: more sayings
- “Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they ar…”Saul David
- “Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth abou…”Clark Zlotchew
- “The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture…”Sara Sheridan
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Books by Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
2003
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2006
Here I Am
2017
Eating animals
2009