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" 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. "
Dave Eggers
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Know
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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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" I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The house is a factory. "
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" 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. "
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" People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. "
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Strange
" 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. "
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Creativity
Ideas
" I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. "
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Really
Believe
" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "
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Communion
Move
" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "
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Sort
Chicago
Fan
" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "
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Taste
Inconsistent
Family
" I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. "
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I Can
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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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Romance
I Am
" 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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Back
Voice
Story
" 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. "
Dave Eggers
Chaos
Everyone
Know
" 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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Story
Own
Sometimes
" 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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Think
Try
Art
" 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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Mind
Writing
Lost
" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "
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You
Feel
Lost
" 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. "
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Want
You
Time
" 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. "
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Thoughts
Work
You
" 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. "
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Work
Say
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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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Powerful
Restrictions
" 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. "
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Feel
Mean
Lying
" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "
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Writing
Book
Over
" 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
" But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. "
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