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" 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. "

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" Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder. "

David Grann

People

Job

Funny

" If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. "

" 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 guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. "

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

" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations. "

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

" I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. "

" The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. "

" 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. "

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

" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "

" 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. "

" I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be. "

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

" 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

" It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. "

" 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

" 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. "