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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. "

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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

" 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. "

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

" The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The house is a factory. "

Dave Eggers

House

Factory

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

" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "