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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. "

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

" I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. "