David Grann

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.

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.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.