“After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.” IfsArtistLeftInterestingCollegeOfficeDullLackingAcademia Author:Joshua Ferris
“Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.” PeopleLooksLittlesWholeStrangeTasteExtraordinaryHearingWhole LifeSensesFactualEyesight Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.” IfsKnowsBookHappensLowsExpectationsRemarksLow ExpectationsI Liked You Author:Joshua Ferris
“I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMightCareCultureIndividualI BelieveSocialRealizingGroupsFashionCirclesCorporationsReligion And Politics Author:Joshua Ferris
“I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.” Has BeensMotherFatherLinesFourMarriedMy FamilyIntentionEightDivorceCeremonyDivorcedMother And Father Author:Joshua Ferris
“I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.” ThinkingWritingWellsMovingHigherPaperComputerFingersScreensConcentrationPensKeyboardsLooking Down Author:Joshua Ferris
“My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.” WritingFirstsBelieveLongBookJobsGamesI BelieveAttentionWorryNovelLateDeserveCommerceCompellingE Commerce Author:Joshua Ferris
“One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.” FeelsFailingOne ThingTerribleSatisfiedConclusion Author:Joshua Ferris
“The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.” PersonsDesireConditionsOfficePressureSeriesCrushCookersEnablers Author:Joshua Ferris
“How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?” HumansProcessLosesHuman BeingsAttentionTalkingWillingLosingPay AttentionLazyLive ByIphoneShort LifeBlackberriesLosing Ourselves Author:Joshua Foer