“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage… — David Grann Past and present 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
“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
“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
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,… — David Grann Mother 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 Chaotic 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… — David Grann Lost souls 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 Amazon 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 White house 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
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Always 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 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
“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
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of… — David Grann American 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
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
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
Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything… — David Grann Confidence 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
I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by… — David Grann About Copy Share Image
