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Dave Eggers Quotes

Loneliness is just a thing that I’m not personally interested in. So far, it hasn’t been on my docket of things to write about Picture Quote #1

I am a bike enthusiast; there’s a certain amount of romance to bikes. They’re both beautiful and utilitarian Picture Quote #1

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn’t it gorgeous? Picture Quote #1

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) Picture Quote #1

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind Picture Quote #1

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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you’re called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can’t ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn’t written anything for a year Picture Quote #1

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we’re losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn’t have to be that way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing Picture Quote #1

For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally Picture Quote #1

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Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don’t get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don’t get to hear the person’s voice; you don’t get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that’s about it Picture Quote #1

I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile Picture Quote #1

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons Picture Quote #1

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore Picture Quote #1

I publish my own books, so there isn’t a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house Picture Quote #1

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn’t go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries Picture Quote #1

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can’t cut corners Picture Quote #1

Well, my background is journalism. I don’t have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college Picture Quote #1

The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Loneliness is just a thing that I’m not personally interested in. So far, it hasn’t been on my docket of things to write about (Dave Eggers Quotes) I am a bike enthusiast; there’s a certain amount of romance to bikes. They’re both beautiful and utilitarian (Dave Eggers Quotes) How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Dave Eggers Quotes) But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 Quotes) Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn’t it gorgeous? (Dave Eggers Quotes) Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) (Dave Eggers Quotes) I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind (Dave Eggers Quotes) Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you’re called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can’t ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn’t written anything for a year (Dave Eggers Quotes) It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we’re losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn’t have to be that way (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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 (Dave Eggers Quotes) I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing (Dave Eggers Quotes) For years I feared the opening of every elevator, half-convinced that from the opened doors would come a bullet, for me, shot by a man in a tan trenchcoat. I have no idea why I feared this, expected it to happen. I even knew how I would react to this bullet coming from the elevator door, what word I would say. That word was: Finally (Dave Eggers Quotes) Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don’t get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don’t get to hear the person’s voice; you don’t get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that’s about it (Dave Eggers Quotes) I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile (Dave Eggers Quotes) Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons. (Dave Eggers Quotes) Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore. (Dave Eggers Quotes) I publish my own books, so there isn’t a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. (Dave Eggers Quotes) All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose. (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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. (Dave Eggers Quotes) He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn’t go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries. (Dave Eggers Quotes) The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can’t cut corners. (Dave Eggers Quotes) Well, my background is journalism. I don’t have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. (Dave Eggers Quotes) The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident. (Dave Eggers Quotes) 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. (Dave Eggers Quotes)

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