Joshua Ferris Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Joshua Ferris quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 and very human instincts.”
“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”
“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.”
“Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.”
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