“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.” Quote by Joshua Ferris
“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