Jonathan Safran Foer Podcasts Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

You would have read some quotes of Jonathan Safran Foer in my previous post. Now I'm re-reading his book and just googled more about him. So here I come across his podcast and I feel like a hundred dollar. lolz

"I'm much more afraid of not writing something that I should be writing than failing at something that I write. "

"A good book actually can change the world. I just believe that. It makes people see things differently..”

"If a book I write gets taken off the shelf, it's not the end of the world, but if I don't write the thing that I feel I should be writing, then it is kind of the end of the world, at least for me. At least I will decide I should stop doing what I'm doing and do something else."

"That's what's good about books - their meaning doesn't belong to anybody."

"I don't have real intentions when I start to write. The accident can be fortuitous if you let them be. I don't trust my intuitions, I don't trust my abilities, but I do trust accidents, to be somebody who recognizes them."

“Somebody asked me how you would define yourself? and what I said is my book is how I define myself. It precisely how would I define myself even though I’m not like the character, even what in the book does not happen to me. The thing that I like about writing is that is it give me a good opportunity to define myself that I don’t have in my none-writing life. And I haven’t found the other way to do it. So until I found the better way to do it, it will become more important to me to define myself.”

--- Quoted from Jonathan Safran Foer Podcast
Author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close