Lawrence Wright Quotes
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 religious fanaticism.
IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.
Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.
Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.
Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.
Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.
I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.
I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.
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 continues.
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.
From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.
The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.