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David Grann Quotes

I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 10, 1967

Topics

Hate Bugs Snakes Hike Camp

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

Jillian Michaels

Confidence Fitness People Me Thought

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

People Story Write Two People Room

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

Myself Beginning Start Reading You

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

Michael D. Barnes

World Tough Gun You Country See

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Quality Writing Process You Lose

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

I Am Advice Messed Up More Never Up

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

Myself Never Role Like Some Really

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

Time Struggle School Think Better

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

Parents Me Black Think Learn You

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Work Identity Without Just Much

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Challenges Book Problems Censorship

Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.

Soup Game You Perfect Deer Meat

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