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Famous Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.”
“I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.”
“I spent my life learning to feel less.”
“Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
“Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.”
“I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.”
“I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.”
“I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.”
“Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.”
“As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.”
“Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.”
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.”
“Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?”
“It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.”