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" 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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" 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

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

" Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

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Realize

" One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. "

" It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years. "

" If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the magic of stories and the power of stories. "

" 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. "

" You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation. "

" 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 spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" 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. "

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

" You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing. "

" I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood. "

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

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

" Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all. "

" I look for stories everywhere. "

" I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. "

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

" Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' "