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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.
More from Jonathan Safran Foer (239 quotes) →Keep reading Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nua…”Jonathan Safran Foer
Change: more sayings
- “Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourse…”Harold Bloom
- “I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one sing…”Haruki Murakami
- “To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding…”Samuel Wilson
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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