“I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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
“...she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“It happened all the time. Maybe someone had a legitimate gripe that deserved airing. Maybe someone had a compliment that shouldn't go… — joshua ferris Copy Share Image
“almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“He stood just inside the door and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again?… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“I think that there have been displays of an impoverished reading of the book. I get the distinct feeling at times that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“But now, now he needed to let himself rest when it came time to rest, and to move on when it came… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Between the time I first started working in advertising in 1998 and now, the word brand has replaced identity. We are no… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t as absurd a notion as it might sound. Some days, time passed way too slowly here, other days far too… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull… — 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
