If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school. Dave Eggers More Quotes by Dave Eggers More Quotes From Dave Eggers You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. Dave Eggers doegivingmen Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? Dave Eggers pursueinformationknows But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad. Dave Eggers frustrationinspirationanimal My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own. Dave Eggers movementvoice It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers our-familyfamilytaste We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils. Dave Eggers pencilsbuttonsweek He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again. Dave Eggers dreamsleepmorning 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. Dave Eggers back-whennewsmorning If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Dave Eggers writingtalkingpeople 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. Dave Eggers effortdesignbook The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. Dave Eggers kindpressurestories Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. Dave Eggers importantmindwriting When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. Dave Eggers voicestoriessometimes 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 darkbookfirsts You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. Dave Eggers smartkidspeople Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome. Dave Eggers paineyeboys The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable. Dave Eggers disagreeablepainsymbolism There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana Dave Eggers coastallouisianahome A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating. Dave Eggers footballsoccercheating I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. Dave Eggers longartthinking
