Dave Eggers Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.”

“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.”

“You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.”

“But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.”

“I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.”

“Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.”

“I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.”

“I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.”

“McSweeney's 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.”

“The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.”