Dave Eggers Quotes
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
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I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
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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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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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I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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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.
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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.