Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggersis an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He is also the founder of McSweeney's, a literary journal; the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, and a human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1970
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
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.
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
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.
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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 went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation. “I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can’t remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It’s all in puddles and ripples. That’s what time is for me.