"As a writer, I am trying to express those things that are most scary to me, because I am alone with them. Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances."
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Jonathan Safran Foer
A genius. If there was one book I had to learn by heart it would be “Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close”. Beats all the classics (Hemingway, Fitzgerald et al) for me.
