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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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Author:Dave Eggers

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic

“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

“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”

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Book:How the Water Feels to the Fishes

Source: How the Water Feels to the Fishes

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

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“Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.”

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Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“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.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

About the Author

Born: March 12, 1970
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 251

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