Dave Eggers Quotes

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Dave Eggers

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 12, 1970

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Dave Eggers

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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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

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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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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 am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

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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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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 publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

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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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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

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I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

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You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

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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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I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

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