David Grann Quotes
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
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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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A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.
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Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
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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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Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
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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'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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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
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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 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'm a very slow reader.
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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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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 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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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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There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
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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 political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
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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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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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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
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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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To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.