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Dave Eggers is an American writer, born on March 12, 1970. He is known for his unique narrative style and his focus on social issues. His notable works include 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'.

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“I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.”

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“I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.”

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“But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.”

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Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“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.”

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“Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.”

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“You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher”

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“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.”

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Born: March 12, 1970
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Quotes: 251

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusRelated source material

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