Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. — David Grann Crime Copy Share Image
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. — David Grann Best Copy Share Image
“At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes,” — David Grann Fictional Copy Share Image
“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
“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.” — David Grann Went Home 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
“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
“Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett” — David Grann 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 Always 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
“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 Always 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 Believe 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 Parenting 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 Copy Share Image
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What… — David Grann History Copy Share Image
“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build… — David Grann Explorers Copy Share Image
“It was the Battle of the Somme—or what the Germans, who suffered massive casualties as well, referred to in letters home as… — David Grann War Copy Share Image
“One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage… — David Grann Education 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
One of the dangers today is that when we don't like what the facts tell us, we just attack the facts, and… — David Grann Credibility Copy Share Image
“There was one question that the judge and the prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to… — David Grann Osage Murder Copy Share Image
I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! — David Grann Here Copy Share Image
I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. — David Grann Bugs Copy Share Image
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