Dave Eggers

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2,398 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Dave Eggers (writer and publisher) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

everyone's like looking for somebody to start that thing.

And then they're like, thank God, because not everyone is necessarily a starter, I guess.

Or ambitious or organized.

Well, if she has you there to help do those things, then yeah.

You only need two or three people.

I saw a student of mine that was at a crossroads.

He's 35 now, but I knew him when he was in high school.

And I was like, just find a couple people because alone, it's just sad and lonely or whatever.

But a couple people, you're like a little cadre of people and you're gonna buck them up if they're down, they can buck you up if you're down and together you can get a lot more done in a given day and it's gonna be a lot more fun.

So the idea in any art form of being that lonely person in the cabin throwing crumpled up sheets of paper in the corner is a canard.

I don't know it very often.

to be true and also it's so unnecessary.

Sometimes you need isolation.

I can only write when I'm alone, but then I can send a draft to all the different writers, mostly in the Bay Area.

Like, hey, what do you think?

Is this anything?

And then you're in community with people that are like, yeah, keep going.

And then you feel, okay, you have jet fuel, but the idea of like, I'm not gonna show it to you

for seven years and then you create some mangled Frankenstein novel that nobody wants.

It's such a mistake on so many levels.

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