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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The house is a factory. "

Dave Eggers

House

Factory

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "

" To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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