“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
Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. — David Grann Ideology Copy Share Image
“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that” — David Grann Amazon Copy Share Image
“An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?” — David Grann Conquerors Copy Share Image
“Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone—only thing not gone is graveyard and it… — David Grann Fitness 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
To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. — David Grann Always 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
“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
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
“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
“Doc recalled the simple advice that his father gave him upon becoming a lawman: “Get all the evidence you can, son. Then… — David Grann Lawman 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
“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
“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the… — David Grann Exaggerated Copy Share Image
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Autobiographical Copy Share Image
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the… — David Grann Baseball Copy Share Image
When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I… — David Grann Change Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move… — David Grann Done Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born… — David Grann Born Copy Share Image
“Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial… — David Grann Money Copy Share Image
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at… — David Grann Awake at night Copy Share Image
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide… — David Grann Books 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
“During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver.… — David Grann Beaver Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully… — David Grann Believe Copy Share Image
“After White told Hoover that he had occasionally given an agent a 100 rating, Hoover responded sharply, writing, “I regret that I… — David Grann Told Hoover Copy Share Image
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started… — David Grann Enough Copy Share Image
“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.… — David Grann American revolution 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
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph.… — David Grann Between 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 Osage Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the truth; I'm a kind of a fundamentalist. My goal is at least to the best of… — David Grann Ability Copy Share Image
“… If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now… — David Grann Journey Copy Share Image
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly… — David Grann Memories Copy Share Image
“Tom’s sergeant was shot six times by an assailant, while a bystander was struck twice. As the sergeant lay on the ground,… — David Grann Death Copy Share Image
“White began putting together a squad of Cowboys, but he didn’t include Doc: since serving in the Rangers, he and his brother… — David Grann Family Copy Share Image
