A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything. - Joshua Ferris
Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.
- Joshua Ferris
We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth … - Joshua Ferris
We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth …
The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you spend enough time o… - Joshua Ferris
The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you spend enough time o…
I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary … - Joshua Ferris
I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary …
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 th… - 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 th…
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense. - Joshua Ferris
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes iden… - Joshua Ferris
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes iden…
To conform is to lose your soul - Joshua Ferris
To conform is to lose your soul
We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes fo… - Joshua Ferris
We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes fo…
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