Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1977

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The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This stuff happens.' We're not trying to pretend like terrible things don't happen, that uncomfortable situations, uncomfortable behavior, unhealthy behaviors don't occur in our daily lives.

Jessie Mueller

DailyHopeGreatMeWorldThink

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Amelie Mauresmo

GreatWorldSpecialTennisTrophy

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Toni Cade Bambara

BusinessWritingLonely

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

Martin Parr

FoodDayLieYouEvery DayLook

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

Joseph Kanon

LifeNatureLoveWritingSurprise

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

Jon Postel

TogetherPeopleInternetThingsLot

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

Doris Lessing

ChildrenWarChildWorldNeverUs

I just want to be that young girl from L.A. who snowboards and gets her nails done.

Chloe Kim

GirlDoneYoungWantNailsHer

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Christopher Buckley

BlessingChildOnly ChildAdvantage

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Clemence Poesy

TrustNew YorkMeNewWhoLike

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

Anthony Doerr

GreatMeLeastWritersRanked

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

SpringPeopleSympathyOutAlmost

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