Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney’s, a literary journal; the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, and a human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of Scholar Match, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines.

Date of birth:
12th March, 1970
"I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there’s just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Morning
"It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Cool
"I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I’d like to see them again. And I’d love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Home
"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."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Home
"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."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Art
"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."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Home
"You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they’re smart people. But you don’t throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Respect
"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."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Business
"It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Family
"I’ve never had WiFi at home. I’m too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting."
― Dave Eggers
Topic(s): Home

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