141 Quotes by David Grann

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

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've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

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

I don't normally do pure historical work.

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

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.

I'm a very slow reader.