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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. "
David Grann
Think
People
Writing
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" Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. "
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Who
Struggles
" The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. "
David Grann
Only
Happening
Conspiracy
" 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
" 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
" If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. "
David Grann
Stories
Writing
End
" I look for stories everywhere. "
David Grann
Stories
Look
Everywhere
" 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. "
David Grann
Ignore
Way
Challenge
" 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
" 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
" I don't normally do pure historical work. "
David Grann
Work
Normally
Historical
" 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
" Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology. "
David Grann
Moderate
Ideology
Rooted
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
David Grann
Crime
Mystery
History
" My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. "
David Grann
More
Structure
Own
" 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 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 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
" I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. "
David Grann
Reach
Book
Film
" It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. "
David Grann
Years
About
Path
" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "
David Grann
Newspaper
Enough
Good
" The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man. "
David Grann
Imagination
Bad
American
" 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
" I'm sure every author has their own process. "
David Grann
Process
Every
Own
" 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. "
David Grann
Night
Reading
Sleep
" 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
" 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
" 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 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