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" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "
Dave Eggers
Writing
Book
Over
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" 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. "
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Going
" 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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Sort
Chicago
Fan
" Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. "
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Small
Tall
" 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. "
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Design
Company
" 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. "
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Work
You
" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "
Dave Eggers
Taste
Inconsistent
Family
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Think
Try
Art
" 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
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Who
Powerful
Restrictions
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Tears
Reading
Me
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Want
You
Time
" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "
Dave Eggers
Cool
Just
Idea
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Compassion
Parents
Listening
" 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
Content
Simple
Dollar
" The house is a factory. "
Dave Eggers
House
Factory
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Chaos
Everyone
Know
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Year
Done
Go
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Home
People
Work
" 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 really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. "
Dave Eggers
Problems
Really
Believe
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Home
Day
You
" I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. "
Dave Eggers
College
Through
School
" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "
Dave Eggers
Good
Than
Strange
" 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
" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "
Dave Eggers
Hopeful
Far
Got