"If you want to write about people, you……" — Dave Eggers
"If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise."
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182 Quotes by Dave Eggers
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WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have…
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Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it…
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It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
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Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions,…
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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next…
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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back…
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one…
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We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
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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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There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests…
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There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within…
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I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch…
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my…
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to…
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