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
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
Im interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. – 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
The extent of a palace is measured from east to west, or from north to south; but that of a literary work, from the earth to heaven; so that there may be found as much range and power of mind in a few pages… as in a whole epic poem. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1