Quote

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Scare
Comfort
Capable
Words
Making
Experience
Also
Organizing
Vivid

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel, between Europe and Israel, between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The distances seem to be widening wherever you look.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?
Jonathan Safran Foer