Dave Eggers Quotes

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Dave Eggers

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 12, 1970

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

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I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

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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 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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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

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There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

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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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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

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Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

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The house is a factory.

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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

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They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

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Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

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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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But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

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