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Dave Eggers

So this is the space during tu...

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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Dave Eggers

Through the small tall bathroo...

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

And that's actually the brunt ...

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

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Dave Eggers

I think I'm far too hopeful an...

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

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Dave Eggers

And what we were trying to off...

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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Dave Eggers

But I'm thinking about 12 thin...

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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Dave Eggers

But Saudi Arabia is surprising...

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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Dave Eggers

Every time I get through the w...

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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Dave Eggers

Having lost people when they w...

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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Dave Eggers

I always like the idea of doin...

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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Dave Eggers

I can remember exactly where I...

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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Dave Eggers

I don't mean to beat a made-in...

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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Dave Eggers

I had grown up as a fan of Stu...

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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Dave Eggers

I publish my own books, so the...

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

I really believe strongly that...

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

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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 went to public school all my...

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

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Dave Eggers

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010...

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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Dave Eggers

I worked at magazines for over...

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

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