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" 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. "
David Grann
Moral
Consequences
Feel
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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. "
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Image
" I'm sure every author has their own process. "
David Grann
Process
Every
Own
" Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations. "
David Grann
Young
Good
Father
" 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. "
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World
Blessed
Craft
" Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. "
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Cynical
Opposite
Portrayed
" 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
" 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. "
David Grann
Job
Copy
Me
" 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
" 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
" 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 wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. "
David Grann
Reach
Book
Film
" I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. "
David Grann
Find
Best
Way
" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "
David Grann
Lost
Times Square
Subway
" 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. "
David Grann
Good
Sitting
Somewhere
" Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. "
David Grann
Moderate
Ideology
Rooted
" Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. "
David Grann
Facts
Who
Struggles
" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "
David Grann
Sports
Word
Radio
" 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. "
David Grann
People
Job
Funny
" There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter. "
David Grann
Stories
You
Purpose
" I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. "
David Grann
Interesting
Society
Say
" I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. "
David Grann
Bugs
Snakes
Hike
" One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. "
David Grann
Sometimes
Book
End
" The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. "
David Grann
Our
Way
Live
" 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
" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "
David Grann
Write
Side
Taught
" 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 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
Pick
Story
Interest
" 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
" 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. "
David Grann
Pay
Change
Clothes
" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "
David Grann
Had
Sherlock Holmes
Always