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The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.

~David Grann

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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.

~David Grann

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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

~David Grann

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There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft, but there's very few.

~David Grann

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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.

~David Grann

Topics: Able Allowed Amazon Been Best City Conspiracy Conventional Criminal Investigating Job Life Live Long Long Time Looking Lost Magazine Me Never New New Yorker Otherwise Reporting Things Through Time Took Very Would Write Yorker

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You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?

~David Grann

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I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.

~David Grann

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I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

~David Grann

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The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.

~David Grann

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The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.

~David Grann

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 10th, 1967

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