Dave Eggers Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Unique, Stopping

• 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

  Book, Thinking, Depth

• 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

  Lying, Book, Mean

• Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Creativity, What Matters

  "Are you taking any steps to keep shit real? Dave Eggers on 'Selling Out'" by Caterina Fake, www.businessinsider.com. December 23, 2013.

• This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

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  Pain, Book, Boys

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

• Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

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  Book, Saved

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.100, Vintage

• Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Nonfiction

• I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Self, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

• When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Cutting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

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  Book, Publishing House, Editors

• I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

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  Book, Writing, Years

• Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

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  Book, Writing, World

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

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  Book, Ideas, Fake

• 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.

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  Book, Design, Effort

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

• 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.

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  Book, Numbers, Midwest

• When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

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  Book, Dark, Firsts

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

• Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, College, Awards

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

• Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.

  Dave Eggers

  Powerful, Book, Voice

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