Quote

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

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
Replacement
Replacements
Books
Lives
Thought
Book
Without
Real

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
Jonathan Safran Foer