Dave Eggers Quotes
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When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
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We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.
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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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I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
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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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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
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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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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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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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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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The house is a factory.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
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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.