“I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.” WorldEffortWake UpExtraordinary Author:Joshua Ferris
“I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in the world. They're curious, they're empathetic. They understand suffering. They don't turn away from that. But what they do is essentially useless. Except for the sake of the thing itself.” PeopleThinkingWorldHelpingSufferingCommonBehaviorCuriousCharitableEmpathetic Author:Joshua Ferris
“We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.” ThinkingWorldRealHonestCommunicationTruthful Author:Joshua Ferris
“Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.” WorldComedyProseColorfulCharismaCharismatic Author:Joshua Ferris
