Quotes from Dave Eggers

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

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

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

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

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

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.

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.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

The house is a factory.

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

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