“I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorc...” — Joshua Ferris Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.”

“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.”

“I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.”

“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.”

“The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.”

“Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”

“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”

“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”

“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”

“The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.”