Stories Quote by David Grann Download Open image “I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — 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 refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann 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 making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann 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
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — 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 mad in… — David Grann 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, whose warriors… — David Grann 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, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
