Quotes by Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris

A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day–nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone’s mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.

Children

Mother

Thinking

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

Dentist

Doctors

Half

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

Depth

Easy

Surface

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.

Artist

College

Interesting

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Broken

Heart

Poor Decisions

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

Baseball

Beautiful

Games

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It’s commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It’s too accessible to the great unwashed.

Serious

Between the time I first started working in advertising in 1998 and now, the word brand has replaced identity. We are no longer individuals so much as we are brands. We’re individual brands. Individuals are basically left to define their individuality by staying off the internet, which in and of itself can be a brand, the opting-out brand.

Advertising

Identity

Individuality

Comedy is like fictional charm. It’s the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who’s immediately charismatic, you’re attracted to that person. And in fiction it’s got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you’re hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it’s simply being a funny writer.

Charisma

Comedy

World

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.

Book

Expectations

Lows

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Absurd

Advertising

Annoying

Answers

Anxiety

Artist

Attention

Awareness

Baseball

Beautiful

Becoming

Believe

Book

Broken

Cancer

Challenges

Character

Charisma

Children

College

Colorado River

Comedy

Communication

Community

Conclusion

Conform

Considering

Contentment

Contradiction

Courses

Crush

Dawn

Decision

Dentist

Depth

Desire

Despair

Divorce

Doctors

Dog

Easy

Effort

Emotional

Everyday

Everyday Life

Expectations

Failing

Fall

Fashion

Father

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Quotes by Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

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.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It’s commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It’s too accessible to the great unwashed.

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.

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