Dave Eggers Quotes
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I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.
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It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
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I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also:You are tired.You are true of heart!
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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
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And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
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The house is a factory.
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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
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‘Listen John-’ ‘Who’s John?’ ‘You’re John.’ ‘I’m John?’ ‘Yeah, I changed your name.’
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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.
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Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
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To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
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I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
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When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
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I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.