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
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann 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 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
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 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 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 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 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
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph.… — David Grann 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
“… 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
“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
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage,… — David Grann Indians 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
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
“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the… — David Grann 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
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 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
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at… — David Grann 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
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
“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
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born… — David Grann 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
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 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
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead. — David Grann Culture 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
“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 Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — 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
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
“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
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
