Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferrisis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Joshua Ferris quotes about
night knows one-night
I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.
sunday weekend two
Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.
identity
Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.
college artist interesting
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.
failing terrible conclusion
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.
effort absurd reasonable
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.
writing thinking ideas
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
sexy strong thinking
She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.
wasting-time annoying wasted-time
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 wasting it on.
becoming considering
I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.