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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. "
Dave Eggers
Things
Imagine
Day
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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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Sometimes
" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "
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Writing
Book
Over
" 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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Award
Vietnam
" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "
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Taste
Inconsistent
Family
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Think
Web
Ultimate
" Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. "
Dave Eggers
Experience
College
Class
" But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. "
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Home
Day
You
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Hope
Civility
Respect
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Feel
Mean
Lying
" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "
Dave Eggers
Good
Than
Strange
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Book
Dark
Everyone
" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "
Dave Eggers
Status
Communion
Move
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Back
Voice
Story
" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "
Dave Eggers
Sort
Chicago
Fan
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Value
Words
Way
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Expectation
Newspaper
Own
" I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. "
Dave Eggers
Beautiful
Romance
I Am
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Books
Easy
Printing
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Teachers
High School
Reading
" I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. "
Dave Eggers
Too
Distracted
YouTube
" Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. "
Dave Eggers
Mind
Writing
Lost
" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "
Dave Eggers
Doing
Seriously
Person
" They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. "
Dave Eggers
Out
Mother
Stomach
" I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. "
Dave Eggers
Day
Impact
Government
" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "
Dave Eggers
Naive
Right
Doing
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Work
One Thing
Want
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Chicago
Bicycle
Beautiful
" I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. "
Dave Eggers
Problems
Really
Believe
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Science
High
Know
" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "
Dave Eggers
Book
Books
Owe