“the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had… — David Grann Money Copy Share Image
“Fawcett could never take the final leap of a modern anthropologist and accept that complex civilizations were capable of springing up independently… — David Grann Civilizations Copy Share Image
“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work.” — David Grann Climate Copy Share Image
Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett” — David Grann Starvation Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a… — David Grann Book Copy Share Image
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
“Because the Amazon frontier was so isolated, it was governed by its own laws and, as one observer put it, made the… — David Grann Frontier Copy Share Image
“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least… — David Grann Character Copy Share Image
“Doc recalled the simple advice that his father gave him upon becoming a lawman: “Get all the evidence you can, son. Then… — David Grann Copy Share Image
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet… — David Grann Animals Copy Share Image
I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous… — David Grann Fear Copy Share Image
You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“John Wren, the Ute agent, had recently spoken to Mollie’s priest, who said that she had stopped coming to church, which was… — David Grann Family Copy Share Image
“Hoover’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“What do I know about fear? What do I know about courage? . . . Until actually faced with a crisis no man knows… — David Grann Courage Copy Share Image
I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with… — David Grann Character Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral… — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“It was getting so that you could not bury an Osage Indian at a cost of under $6,000”—a sum that, adjusted for… — David Grann Copy Share Image
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at… — David Grann Blessed Copy Share Image
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe.” — David Grann Death Copy Share Image
“I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months,” Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later” — David Grann Getting older Copy Share Image
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year,… — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“These Indians became accustomed to lives of glorious ease. But now…their income from oil is rapidly disappearing, and that was practically all… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The more White investigated the flow of oil money from Osage headrights, the more he found layer upon layer of corruption.” — David Grann Corruption Copy Share Image
“Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand” — David Grann Crane Copy Share Image
Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to… — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. — David Grann Copy Share Image
