I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Adventure Copy Share Image
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. — David Grann Book Copy Share Image
We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. — David Grann Cynical Copy Share Image
“Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone—only thing not gone is graveyard and it… — David Grann Fitness Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. — David Grann Ideology Copy Share Image
“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that” — David Grann Copy Share Image
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the… — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Autobiographical Copy Share Image
“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“After White told Hoover that he had occasionally given an agent a 100 rating, Hoover responded sharply, writing, “I regret that I… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully… — David Grann Copy Share Image
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the truth; I'm a kind of a fundamentalist. My goal is at least to the best of… — David Grann Ability Copy Share Image
“Though Brian was only in his late thirties, his life had been scarred by death: not only had he lost his father… — David Grann Death Copy Share Image
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my… — David Grann Copy Share Image
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on… — David Grann Black or white Copy Share Image
“But by 1925 Fawcett had filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a… — David Grann End of the world Copy Share Image
“ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of The Lost City of… — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
“Hoover, who believed that his men should conquer their deficiencies the way he had conquered his childhood stutter, purged anyone who failed… — David Grann Children Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage,… — David Grann Indians Copy Share Image
I do think that in many cases, where crimes have been covered up and perpetrators can escape justice, history can provide some… — David Grann Crime Copy Share Image
“But within four years Jefferson had compelled the Osage to relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River. The… — David Grann Indians Copy Share Image
“During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.” — David Grann Accidents Copy Share Image
If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. — David Grann Copy Share Image
The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. — David Grann Conspiracy Copy Share Image
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. — David Grann Modernist Copy Share Image
“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. — David Grann Copy Share Image
