She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. Dave Eggers More Quotes by Dave Eggers More Quotes From Dave Eggers When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework. Dave Eggers twentiescitiespeople Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded? Dave Eggers curiosityworld Then he got more books. He saved all the books. Dave Eggers savedbook Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits. Dave Eggers writingbookworld I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am. Dave Eggers better-than-youthinking It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way. Dave Eggers agedarkway Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. Dave Eggers carmouthsbrain I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. Dave Eggers impactgovernmentfeet I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know. Dave Eggers When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence. Dave Eggers cuttingbook I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. Dave Eggers selfbookpeople Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. Dave Eggers lonelinesswriting I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction. Dave Eggers artisticselffiction I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else. Dave Eggers voicelittlesthinking We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring. Dave Eggers governmentsimplethinking To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet. Dave Eggers supportpartysimple I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess. Dave Eggers newssecretmorning They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. Dave Eggers outstomachsixmother You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. Dave Eggers parentsyoucompassiontime Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. Dave Eggers statusmovecommunionpeople
