It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Now I'm in nonfiction. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
![“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's…” quote by Dave Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9de/dave-eggers-638_books_m-y-mother-read-a-horror-novel-every-nig_645974.jpg)
