Dave Eggers Quotes
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
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Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.
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The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.
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Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
