I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Book 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
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Adventure 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 don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. — David Grann Bugs 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 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
I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. — David Grann Blood 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 Copy Share Image
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which… — David Grann Back 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
“Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe.” — David Grann Death Copy Share Image
“White and his cowboy hat loomed over the diminutive Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted… — David Grann Cowboy hat 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
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. — David Grann Book Copy Share Image
You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people… — David Grann Go 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 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
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. — David Grann Even 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 Choose 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
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
“At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes,” — David Grann Copy Share Image
