David Grann Quotes
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
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When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.
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The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
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I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.
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I'm sure every author has their own process.
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I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.
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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
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I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.
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I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.
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I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
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It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.
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For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
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To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
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Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
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There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
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Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.
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The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.
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The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
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I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.
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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.