Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAs long as I am thinking, I am alive.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWriters now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes you have to put your fears in order.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLet love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER