Background Image
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 911. if you're in my position - a new yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - i think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Think It's A Greater Risk Not

Jonathan Safran Foer
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 911. if you're in my position - a new yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - i think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
Views: 2
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Writing Thinking Risk

More From Jonathan Safran Foer

I think i became a better writer after i started writing for the new yorker. well, i know i did. and part of it was having my new yorker editor and part of it is that was when i started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. so you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.
Reading Writing Thinking
Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. your actions have real consequences. you have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. it forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. you can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. the greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. it's very physical, you use your mind and your body.
Real Hands Climbing
A lot of things that people think are risky, i don't think are risky. i don't get all that. i think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.
Summer Thinking People
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. but it hasn't been in the same form. i used to write scripts for television. i wrote for my comedy act. then i wrote screenplays, and then i started writing new yorker essays, and then i started writing plays. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the new yorker essays, but they were comic. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. in my head, there was a link between everything. one thing led to another.
Writing Play Long
I always have issues. i'm a new yorker. i always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a new yorker. i think trust is something that comes from the gut. i don't think it's anything specific. i don't think it's anything tangible.
Thinking Issues Tangible
Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. everything has some risk to it. you know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. so what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk.
Zero Thinking Keys
Similar Quotes
It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
Zero Important Privacy
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. first class jails, second class schools. this is zero tolerance.
Basketball Zero School
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
Zero Golf Energy
There is zero correlation between iq and emotional empathy... they're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Zero Emotional Empathy

Trending Author

William Gilmore Simms
William Gilmore Simms
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
Norton Juster
Norton Juster
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation