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All Quotes by author - David Grann

" After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking. "

" A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding. "

" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "

" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "

" Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations. "

" Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself. "

" Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. "

" Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night. "

" Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize. "

" Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around. "

" Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. "

" Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all. "

" Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere. "

" Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead. "

" For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment. "

" Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be. "

" Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty. "

" I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer. "

" I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. "

" I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. "

" I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' "

" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "

" I don't normally do pure historical work. "

" I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. "

" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "

" If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. "

" I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table. "

" I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them. "

" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "

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" I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take. "

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