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" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "
David Grann
Sports
Word
Radio
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" 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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" I don't normally do pure historical work. "
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Normally
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" The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered. "
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" I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. "
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Society
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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. "
David Grann
People
Early
Just Do It
" 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
Night
Me
Enjoy
" We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. "
David Grann
Desire
Think
Tell
" 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
Go
Free
History
" 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. "
David Grann
Sometimes
Say
People
" I look for stories everywhere. "
David Grann
Stories
Look
Everywhere
" 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
" One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives. "
David Grann
Truth
Things
Believe
" It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. "
David Grann
Years
About
Path
" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "
David Grann
Obsessive
Work
Tend
" To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. "
David Grann
Writing
Always
Hate
" I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. "
David Grann
Political
Congress
Always
" 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. "
David Grann
Joke
Study
Used
" I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in. "
David Grann
Important
You
Believe
" 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
History
Out
Like
" The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. "
David Grann
Only
Happening
Conspiracy
" Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all. "
David Grann
Person
Live
History
" I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "
David Grann
Think
Journalist
You
" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "
David Grann
Tweet
Childlike
Curiosity
" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "
David Grann
Write
Side
Taught
" It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. "
David Grann
Time
Know
Little
" 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. "
David Grann
Write
Knowledge
History
" It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city. "
David Grann
Job
Best
Live
" 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. "
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College
Doing
Moment
" 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
Game
Image
" I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. "
David Grann
People
Years
Books