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" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. "

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

" 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. "

" I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "