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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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- “What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mou…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world…”Jonathan Safran Foer
- “We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a…”Jonathan Safran Foer
Dogs: more sayings
- “Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addicti…”David McRaney
- “Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs.”Christopher Plummer
- “Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, wh…”Loren Eiseley
Explore Identity
- “We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these…”Frank Wanderer
- “We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnera…”Alain de Botton
- “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day…”Gabriel García Márquez
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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