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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 these students. (Dave Eggers)
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. View quote
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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. View quote
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I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. View quote
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. View quote
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I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. View quote
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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. View quote
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The house is a factory. View quote
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High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. View quote
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There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise. View quote
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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. (Dave Eggers)
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. View quote
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I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. View quote
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I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. View quote
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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. View quote
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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. View quote
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I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. View quote
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. (Dave Eggers)
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. View quote
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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. View quote
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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. View quote
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Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last. View quote
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