“Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll ...” — Dave Eggers Quote

“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.”

“Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.”

“I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.”

“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.”

“The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.”

“But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.”

“Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened.”

“I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.”

“The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.”

“Nonfiction is never going to die.”

“I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.”

“I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.”