Dave Eggers Quotes

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.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1970

Topics

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I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

Jessie Cave

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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

John C. Hawkes

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Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.

Andy Dunn

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I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

Melissa Marr

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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

John Major

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I'm a street fighter.

Steve Bannon

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We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Solange Knowles

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Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Mary Roach

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It's much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.

Mike Pompeo

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Jay Hernandez

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Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

Jason Chaffetz

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