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 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
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
I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at… — David Grann Blessed Copy Share Image
“Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand” — David Grann Crane Copy Share Image
“White gave his men advice in case their cover was blown: “Keep your balance, avoid any rough stuff if possible.” Making it… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray… — David Grann History Copy Share Image
You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which… — David Grann 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
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which… — David Grann 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
“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
“A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We… — David Grann Conspiracies Copy Share Image
“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they… — David Grann Little house on the prairie Copy Share Image
“The more White investigated the flow of oil money from Osage headrights, the more he found layer upon layer of corruption.” — David Grann Corruption Copy Share Image
“These Indians became accustomed to lives of glorious ease. But now…their income from oil is rapidly disappearing, and that was practically all… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year,… — David Grann Baseball 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
“I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months,” Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later” — David Grann Getting older Copy Share Image
I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. — David Grann Books Copy Share Image
Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. — David Grann Baseball 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
“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
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
“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
“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.” — David Grann 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
“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
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“It was getting so that you could not bury an Osage Indian at a cost of under $6,000”—a sum that, adjusted for… — 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
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with… — David Grann Character Copy Share Image
“What do I know about fear? What do I know about courage? . . . Until actually faced with a crisis no man knows… — David Grann Courage Copy Share Image
“Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents” — David Grann Copy Share Image
