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" 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. "

David Grann

People

Talking

Memories

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

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

David Grann

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" When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known. "

David Grann

Free

History

" There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor. "

David Grann

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Always

" To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. "

" 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. "

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

" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "

" I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences. "

" When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should. "

" I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. "

" Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. "

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

" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "

" I love the magic of stories and the power of stories. "

" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "

" I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. "

David Grann

Stories

Crime

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

" You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation. "

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

" 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 a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more. "

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

" The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. "

" The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there. "

" 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. "

" There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has. "

" Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder. "

" I look for stories everywhere. "