Dave Eggers Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.”

“When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.”

“Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.”