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Joshua Ferris

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, but time and again – in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles – we think and do as one.

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Joshua Ferris

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 holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I’m moving words around on screen.

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Joshua Ferris

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

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Joshua Ferris

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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Joshua Ferris

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 an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

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Joshua Ferris

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 ceremonies with the best of intentions.

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Joshua Ferris

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 someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, ‘I liked your book,’ I don’t know if it’s going to happen again.

– Joshua Ferris

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 the commerce only late in the game.

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Joshua Ferris

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

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Joshua Ferris

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 satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

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Joshua Ferris

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

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Joshua Ferris

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

– Joshua Ferris

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