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" The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself. "

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" If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war. "

Lawrence Wright

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Talking

" There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that. "

" Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society. "

" Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already. "

" 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 put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. "

" I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day. "

" When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun. "

" I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion. "

" For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness. "

" Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that. "

Lawrence Wright

Judge

You

" 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. "

Lawrence Wright

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Movement

" I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. "

" I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. "

Lawrence Wright

Reality

Surprises

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

" Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. "

" 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 there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. "

" I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. "

" Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create. "

" Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms. "

Lawrence Wright

Work

Lot

" If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long! "

" A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. "

" I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. "

" Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won't save it if it can't find a way to bring new members into the fold. "

" Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it. "

" If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated. "

" The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life. "

" I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that. "

" I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind. "

" I deplore sexual harassment. "

Lawrence Wright

Sexual

Harassment

" Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism. "