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" 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. "

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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. "

" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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