If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. — David Grann 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 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 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
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — 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 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
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
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
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — 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 refuge in… — 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 classes surpassed… — 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 making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
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… — David Grann 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
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann 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, whose warriors… — David Grann 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, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
