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" 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. "

David Grann

Place

You

People

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" 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

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

David Grann

Part

Always

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment. "

" 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. "

" Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. "

" 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. "

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