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Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) 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  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) 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  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I’ve never found a better system.  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) I don’t want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) I get very antsy when I’m not occupied  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) You can’t tell a story linearly if you want people to understand  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I’ve never found a better system  (Lawrence Wright Quotes) 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  (Lawrence Wright Quotes)