“Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.” — David Grann Accidents Copy Share Image
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. — David Grann Modernist Copy Share Image
“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. — David Grann Copy Share Image
The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. — David Grann Conspiracy Copy Share Image
If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral… — David Grann Baseball 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 Civilizations Copy Share Image
“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.” — David Grann 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
“In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work.” — David Grann Climate 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Doc recalled the simple advice that his father gave him upon becoming a lawman: “Get all the evidence you can, son. Then… — David Grann 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
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 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 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
“There was one question that the judge and the prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to… — David Grann 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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Adventure Copy Share Image
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. — David Grann Cynical 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
We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous. — David Grann Copy Share Image
