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I'll always be working on fiv...

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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When I was on the bestseller ...

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 always like the idea of doi...

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

Dave Eggers 212 quotes

Paper is a uniquely beautiful...

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

Dave Eggers 212 quotes

So this is the space during t...

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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The weird thing is that worki...

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.

Dave Eggers 212 quotes

Tim O'Brien's book about Viet...

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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I went to Saudi Arabia in 201...

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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There are many Saudi women do...

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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Status in itself is criminal ...

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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It's so easy to print in the ...

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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When I'm doing work online or...

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

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But while mum and dad were in...

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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I'm an amateur science enthus...

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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To me any given story has its...

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.

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When anybody starts out with ...

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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You know, it's been proven th...

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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I've never had WiFi at home. ...

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

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I grew up north of Chicago, n...

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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You can do and use the skills...

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....