American - Writer | March 12, 1970 -
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
Dave Eggers
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
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Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
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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.
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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
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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.
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
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I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
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To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
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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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