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 EggersThis boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.
Dave EggersEvery time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
Dave EggersBut the grind has begun. The windows donโt open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. Weโve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.
Dave EggersGOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.
Dave Eggers