141 Quotes by David Grann

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.