Lawrence Wright Quotes
- I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As…
- Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.
- Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where…
- I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
- Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
- There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord,…
- There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's…
- I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.
- To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored,…
- From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.
- I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.
- I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.
- I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.
- IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
- Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.
- You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.
- Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to…
- From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management…
- Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public…
- I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and…