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" 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. "

David Grann

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few. "

" I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. "

" 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. "

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

" There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. "

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

" 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. "

" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "

" 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. "

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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. "

David Grann

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

" I'm sure every author has their own process. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. "

" The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. "

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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. "