Quotes by Dave Eggers

About Dave Eggers:

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter. He is also the founder of McSweeney's, the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines. His works have received a significant amount of critical acclaim.
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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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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.

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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.

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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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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.

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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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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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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.

Dave Eggers

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

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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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.

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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

Dave Eggers

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

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.

Dave Eggers

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameDave Eggers
  • DescriptionMemoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
  • BornJanuary 8, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Editor; Screenwriter; Novelist
  • WorksA Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius; What Is The What; Zeitoun