American - Journalist | March 10, 1967 -
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
David Grann
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The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.
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One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.
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I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.
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Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
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I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
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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.
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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.
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The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
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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.
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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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