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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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" 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 had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "

" High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. "

" 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. "

" I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. "

" You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. "

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

" 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. "

" So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. "

" The house is a factory. "

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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. "

" I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. "

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

" But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. "

" 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. "

" I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. "

" Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "