David Grann Quotes
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I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
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Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
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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.
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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 look for stories everywhere.
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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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Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
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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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Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
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I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.
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I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.
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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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When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.
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One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.