Quotes by Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Dangerous

Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

Church

Faithful

Real

Coolness is temporary. You can’t capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It’s a momentary conjunction of personalities.

Institutions

People

Personality

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.

Able

Might

Stage Performance

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.

Auras

Movement

Organization

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Scientology

World

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

Book

Drama

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 worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.

Ideas

People

Thinking

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

Mind

People

Thinking

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.

Country

Differences

Government

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Ability

Able

Alternatives

America

Anxiety

Art

Auras

Believe

Biblical

Black

Book

Bridges

Cards

Church

Compassion

Country

Couple

Cutting

Dangerous

Destiny

Differences

Distinction

Done

Drama

Egypt

Emotional

Faithful

Feet

Fiction

Flawed

Giving

Goal

Government

Graduates

Ideas

Institutions

Interest

Interesting

Irs

Journalism

Kind

Loss

Men

Might

Mind

Moments

Movement

Moving

Nashville

Opportunity

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Quotes by Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Coolness is temporary. You can’t capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It’s a momentary conjunction of personalities.

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.

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.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

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

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