I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. David Grann Read Quote
I tried a few grad school programs because I didn’t know how to make it… Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called ‘The Hill.’ Even though my interest in politics wasn’t huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor. David Grann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. David Grann Read Quote
We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories. David Grann Read Quote
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. David Grann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. David Grann Read Quote
