Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

David Grann

Perfect

Big

Eyes

" 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. "

" We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. "

" I don't normally do pure historical work. "

" 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 stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "

David Grann

Childlike

Curiosity

" 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

Free

History

" 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. "

" I'm a very slow reader. "

" I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper. "

" 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. "

" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" 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

Enjoy

" 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'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. "

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

" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "

" 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. "

David Grann

Tell

Always

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

" 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. "

" There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor. "

David Grann

Part

Always

" I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. "

" I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories. "

David Grann

Stories

Crime

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Grann

Okay

Realize

" 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

" My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. "

David Grann

Structure

Own

" 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. "