American - Journalist | March 10, 1967 -
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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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.
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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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I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.
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We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
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Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.
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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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A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.
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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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There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.
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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?
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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.
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