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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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- “I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent,…”Jonathan Safran Foer
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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