Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

We all have the need to feel special.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

Sometimes you might feel like you're not good enough or unique enough, but everyone is! Everyone has different personalities.

I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

Because I'm a nobody, surely it's an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.

Everyone has those insecurities, everyone doubts themselves but it's how we handle that as humans and as people and how we support one another and how we really embrace the things that make us unique.

If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.