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I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
David Grann
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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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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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When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.
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I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.
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My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.
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Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
David Grann
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I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
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Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
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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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One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
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I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.
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I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.
David Grann