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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.

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

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

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

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The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.

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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

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

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

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I'm sure every author has their own process.

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

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

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

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I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

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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.

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I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in.

David Grann

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

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

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

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I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

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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.

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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.

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

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Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.

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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.

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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.

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

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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

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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.

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

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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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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.

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