Quote

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Dave Eggers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
Activist Shareholder
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Lucy Thompson
Climbs
Bottom
Motivational
Middle
Inspirational
Better
Ladder
Right
Ladders
Climb

More quotes by Dave Eggers

Image
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.
Dave Eggers
Image
It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Dave Eggers
Image
I see colors like you hear jet planes.
Dave Eggers
Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.
Dave Eggers
Image
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
Image
No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.
Dave Eggers
Image
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana
Dave Eggers
Image
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
Dave Eggers
Image
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
Dave Eggers
Image
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
Dave Eggers
Image
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.
Dave Eggers
Image
I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.
Dave Eggers
Image
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
Dave Eggers
Image
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Dave Eggers
Image
Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.
Dave Eggers
Image
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.
Dave Eggers
Image
Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
Dave Eggers
Image
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
Dave Eggers
Image
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
Dave Eggers
Image
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
Dave Eggers