The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing that's being spurned - the emotional intelligence, the ethics, the beauty. It's all there. It's all so fully contained in a novel that succeeds. But at the same time, I understand the impulse to put away childish things.
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 …
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…
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…
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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