Dave Eggers Quotes | www.MainQuotes.com

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter.

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.

Tags: Great, Dad, Heart

Dave Eggers

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Tags: Simple, Within, Pay

Dave Eggers

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Tags: Success, Without, Kind

Dave Eggers

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Tags: Place, Rather, Found

Dave Eggers

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Tags: Everything, Everyone, Caring

Dave Eggers

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Tags: College, Took, Except

Dave Eggers

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

Tags: Taste

Dave Eggers

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

Tags: Politics, Back, Saying

Dave Eggers

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

Tags: Work, Working, Able

Dave Eggers

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.

Tags: Day, Working, Kids

Dave Eggers

First
<<
1
2
>>
Last