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. Dave Eggers Read Quote
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. Dave Eggers Read Quote
It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers Read Quote
Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. Dave Eggers Read Quote
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. Dave Eggers Read Quote
Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. Dave Eggers Read Quote
I publish my own books, so there isn’t a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. Dave Eggers Read Quote
People are strange, but more than that, they’re good. They’re good first, then strange. Dave Eggers Read Quote
