“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
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. — David Grann Crime Copy Share Image
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to… — David Grann Baseball 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with… — David Grann History Copy Share Image
“As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — David Grann 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
“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
I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that… — David Grann Interview Copy Share Image
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the… — David Grann History Copy Share Image
“A prominent member of the Osage tribe put the matter more bluntly: "It is a question in my mind whether this jury… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — David Grann Career Copy Share Image
“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build… — David Grann Explorers Copy Share Image
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What… — David Grann History Copy Share Image
“But by 1925 Fawcett had filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a… — David Grann End of the world 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
“One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage… — David Grann Education 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 Cannibalism 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
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
I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. — David Grann Bugs 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 Copy Share Image
“At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes,” — David Grann Copy Share Image
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