David Grann Quotes
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I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.
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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.
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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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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
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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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My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
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After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.
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I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.
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I'm a very slow reader.
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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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I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
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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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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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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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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
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I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!
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The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.
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If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.
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I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
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There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.
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One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.