American - Writer | March 12, 1970 -
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
Dave Eggers
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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
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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.
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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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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.
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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
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I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.
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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.
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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
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I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
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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.
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