David Grann Quotes
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A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.
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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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I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.
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Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
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I'm sure every author has their own process.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
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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 don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.
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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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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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Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.
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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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I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.
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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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To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
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When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known.
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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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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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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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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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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
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You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.