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
thinking way courses
You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.
becoming considering
I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.
doctors half dentist
A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,
dog sunset play
Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.
people irritating-people irritating
It is really irritating to work with irritating people
running long contradiction
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.
depth easy surface
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
heart poor-decisions broken
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
soul conform your-soul
To conform is to lose your soul
night knows one-night
I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.