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Dave Eggers

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

— Dave Eggers romance

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

— Dave Eggers people

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

— Dave Eggers work

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

— Dave Eggers work

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

— Dave Eggers love

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

— Dave Eggers family

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

— Dave Eggers ya

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

— Dave Eggers time

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

— Dave Eggers hope

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 time

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

— Dave Eggers read

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

— Dave Eggers hope

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 art

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

— Dave Eggers work

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

— Dave Eggers strange

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

— Dave Eggers home

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

— Dave Eggers people

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.

— Dave Eggers goal

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 art

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

— Dave Eggers books

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

— Dave Eggers books

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

— Dave Eggers reading

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

— Dave Eggers work

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

— Dave Eggers future

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

— Dave Eggers logic

I am a bike enthusiast; theres a certain amount of romance to bikes. Theyre both beautiful and utilitarian.

— Dave Eggers romance

I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.

— Dave Eggers you

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