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" 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. "
David Grann
Basketball
Football
Long
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" I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer. "
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" I look for stories everywhere. "
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" In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated. "
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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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" We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous. "
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" My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. "
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" Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. "
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" I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "
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" The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it. "
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Way
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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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" 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. "
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" The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links. "
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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 don't normally do pure historical work. "
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" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "
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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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" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. "
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" I'm sure every author has their own process. "
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Every
Own
" I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter. "
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" 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. "
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" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "
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Word
Radio