A biography for David Grannhasn’t been written yet.
“I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.”
“Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.”
“My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.”
“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.”
“I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.”
“A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.”
“I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.”
“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.”
“Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.”
“You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.”
“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.”
“Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.”
“I look for stories everywhere.”
“I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.”
“The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.”
“I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.”
“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.”
“To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.”
“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.”
“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.”