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14 quotes by Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural. It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom. Joshua Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and Philosophy in 1996. He then moved to Chicago and worked in...
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Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes... →

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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... →

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The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

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Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

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After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in... →

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The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to... →

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I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

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I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

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I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

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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 individuals and nothing more... →

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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 times each - eight... →

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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... →

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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... →

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