455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

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.

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.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

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 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.

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.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.