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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.

~David Grann

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My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

~David Grann

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I look for stories everywhere.

~David Grann

Topics: Everywhere Look Stories

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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.

~David Grann

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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.

~David Grann

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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.

~David Grann

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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.

~David Grann

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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

~David Grann

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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

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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.

~David Grann

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 10th, 1967

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