If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Nick Flynn
In life you get one take, and it's perfect.
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the... →
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a little while - several years... →
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
Henry Flynt
I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun... →
Dario Fo
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting... →
Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
Joshua Foer