Top 89 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

About Jonathan Safran Foer

These are some quotes by American author Jonathan Safran Foer Writer, who was born on February 21, 1977.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

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 lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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