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
All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.