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" 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. "

David Grann

World

Blessed

Craft

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Okay

Realize

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David Grann

Part

Always

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" 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

" 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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" When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. "

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" The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball. "

" 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. "

" I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories. "

" I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity. "

David Grann

Childlike

Curiosity

" 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. "

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

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David Grann

Stories

Crime

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