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" To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. "
Dave Eggers
Begging
Me
Story
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" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "
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" 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. "
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" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. "
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" 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. "
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" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "
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Person
" 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. "
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Everyone
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" 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. "
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Newspaper
Own
" 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. "
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Easy
Printing
" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "
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Strange
" 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. "
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Own
Sometimes
" Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. "
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College
Class
" 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. "
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Try
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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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Head
Working
Time
" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "
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Just
Idea
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Voice
Story
" Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. "
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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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Writing
Lost
" 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. "
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Words
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Everyone
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Really
Believe
" I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. "
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" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "
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