Dave Eggers

Like, boy, there's other people that really work for a living.

Like, I really, very lucky to be able to do this.

So God damn it, get something done.

And, you know, I came up through newspapers and magazines where you really didn't have any choice.

You had to produce something.

So I do think that it's a really, it's a good training for any profession, but for a novelist to have had daily deadlines is,

that were real and people counting on it and news counting on it and all that.

But this is the happiest work environment I've ever had where I'm just so content there.

And it's a cradle.

I mean, it's called the cradle, my boat.

So I renamed it, which you're not supposed to do, but I renamed it.

But it's- Why are you not supposed to name it?

It's bad luck to rename a boat.

Yeah.

I've not known that.

Yeah.

But because it rocks all day, it took me months when I was doing it.

At first, I would go down there, get all set up, and fall asleep immediately.

I'd sleep for 90 minutes.

Now I'm used to it enough where I can still get work done.