Dave Eggers Quotes

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

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

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

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

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

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.

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.

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.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

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.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Director of Ensuring the Future

How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.