So this is the space during tutoring hours. Its 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. – Dave Eggers
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahls James and the Giant Peach. – Dave Eggers
Im an amateur science enthusiast. Im not even a professional enthusiast. I dont know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. – Dave Eggers
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if theyre smart people. But you dont throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. – Dave Eggers
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and theres just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. – Dave Eggers
But you know, theres something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention – they go home, theyre finished. They dont stall, they dont do their homework in front of the TV. – Dave Eggers
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and Id like to see them again. And Id love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. – Dave Eggers
Ive never had WiFi at home. Im too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. – Dave Eggers
And thats 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 were able to work with thousands and thousands more students. – Dave Eggers
Im interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. – Dave Eggers
I think theres a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. – Dave Eggers
Its not that our family has no taste, its just that our familys taste is inconsistent. – Dave Eggers
I think newspapers shouldnt try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. – Dave Eggers
Well, my background is journalism. I dont have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. – Dave Eggers
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what its like to internalize all that chaos. – Dave Eggers
McSweeneys 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
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. – Dave Eggers
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. – Dave Eggers
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. – Dave Eggers
