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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. "

Dave Eggers

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "

" 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. "

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

" I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. "

" The house is a factory. "

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Factory

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. "