Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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• When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men
  • Would
  • Tyrants

• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Game

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Now

• Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Think
  • House

• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Always

• I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Chocolate

• I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Most

• I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Hate
  • Respect

• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Me
  • Insults
  • Hail

• In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Business
  • Hiv
  • Bearing

• If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • May
  • Strong
  • Victory

• I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Life
  • Intelligence
  • Depth

• Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Movie

• Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Chance
  • Threatening

• No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.

  

  Luke Bracey
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Growing

• Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer