I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I don't actually think of the internet as the bad guy. I think of the internet as doing a hell of a… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that all books aren't that way. I think that might apply to any book I was writing. The book… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I can't trace thematic similarities between Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed to a life event; I think it's… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time that I'm… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“There was so much unpleasantness in the workaday world. The last thing you ever wanted to do at night was go home and do… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the tallest buildings—the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“...she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow for second-guessing.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
