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Dave Eggers

But you know, there's somethi...

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

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Dave Eggers

I publish my own books, so th...

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

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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Dave Eggers

Well, my background is journa...

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

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Dave Eggers

I met a lot of great people i...

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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Dave Eggers

I worked at Salon.com way bac...

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.

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Dave Eggers

But there was something psych...

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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Dave Eggers

Through the small tall bathro...

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

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Dave Eggers

Some of these kids just don't...

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

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Dave Eggers

High school teachers who want...

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.

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Dave Eggers

McSweeney's as a publishing co...

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.

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Dave Eggers

I met a lot of great people in...

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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Dave Eggers

I think almost every writer in...

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

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Dave Eggers

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

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

Dave Eggers 212 quotes
Dave Eggers

I worked at Salon.com way back...

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.

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