Dave Eggers Quotes

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
Dave Eggers

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
Dave Eggers

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.
Dave Eggers

Work, Busy, Same

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.
Dave Eggers

Time, Good, Smart

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.
Dave Eggers

Beautiful, Both, Bike

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.
Dave Eggers

Work, Home, Working

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.
Dave Eggers

Trying, Goal, Attention

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
Dave Eggers

Naive, Shocked, Violation

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
Dave Eggers

Thinking, Once, Times

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

Place, Easy, Ways

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.
Dave Eggers

Work, Time, Book

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

Lost, Young, Though

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

Person, Idea, Seriously

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

Teacher, Remember, Read

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.
Dave Eggers

Mean, Said, Books

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

Often, Large, Fan

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

Book, Books, House

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

Parents, Problems, Kids

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

Hope, Respect, Almost

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

Far, Hopeful, Trusting

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

Life, School, Through

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

Time, Economic, King

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

Book, Writing, Thought

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
Dave Eggers

Government, Human, After

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

Home, Distracted, Tempting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 8, 1970

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