Dave Eggers Quotes

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

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 wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I've never written a book before.

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.