“Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.” — David Grann Accidents Copy Share Image
If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. — David Grann End Copy Share Image
The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. — David Grann Conspiracy Copy Share Image
If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. — David Grann Find Copy Share Image
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Always Copy Share Image
“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” — David Grann Murdered Copy Share Image
I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. — David Grann Modernist Copy Share Image
I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. — David Grann Blood Copy Share Image
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that… — David Grann Hindsight Copy Share Image
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead. — David Grann Culture Copy Share Image
I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. — David Grann Always Copy Share Image
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. — David Grann Eighth grade Copy Share Image
“It begins as barely a rivulet, this, the mightiest river in the world, mightier than the Nile and the Ganges, mightier than… — David Grann River Copy Share Image
“The instruction was intended to assimilate Mollie into white society and transform her into what the authorities conceived of as the ideal… — David Grann Ideal woman Copy Share Image
“At forty-four, Mollie could finally spend her money as she pleased, and was recognized as a full-fledged American citizen.” — David Grann American citizen 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 Bad Copy Share Image
“They marched like madmen from place to place, until overcome by exhaustion and lack of strength they could no longer move from… — David Grann Exhaustion Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about… — David Grann Amazing Copy Share Image
“The room was dark. Nina Fawcett sat on one side of a table; on the other was a woman peering into a… — David Grann Crystal ball 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… — David Grann Past and present Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They… — David Grann Adventure Copy Share Image
“Yet an ugliness often lurked beneath the reformist zeal of Progressivism. Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against… — David Grann Progressives Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the… — David Grann Best Copy Share Image
“Jararaca” his father said. It was a pit viper, one of the most venomous snakes in the Americas. (A jararaca bite will… — David Grann Parenting 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
“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 Galton 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 Hoover 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Adventure Copy Share Image
I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
