Lawrence Wright Quotes & Sayings

“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, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.”

“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.”

“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”

“You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.”

“I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.”

“Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.”

“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 life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.”

“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.”