Joshua Ferris Quotes

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets…
• A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,
• I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.
• You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded…
• Things could be worse and things could be so much better.
• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be…
• Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.
• Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural…
• I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
• I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.
• The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
• Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.
• After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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