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" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "
David Grann
Baseball
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Image
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" We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. "
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" I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say. "
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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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" It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. "
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" 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. "
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" Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. "
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" I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on. "
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" I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor. "
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" I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "
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" Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night. "
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" The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball. "
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" I'm a very slow reader. "
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Very
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" You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing. "
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" I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' "
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Say
Books
" Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. "
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Crime
Standards
" 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. "
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Write
Knowledge
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" Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around. "
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Mom
Growing Up
Childhood
" You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it? "
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Want
" One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. "
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Book
End
" The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. "
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Only
Happening
Conspiracy
" I'm sure every author has their own process. "
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Process
Every
Own
" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "
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Way
I Can
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" I don't normally do pure historical work. "
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" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "
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" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "
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Times Square
Subway
" There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. "
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" 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. "
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Night
Reading
Sleep
" 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. "
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" I look for stories everywhere. "
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" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "
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