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Lawrence Wright
Profession : Author
Birth : August 2, 1947
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I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways.
Lawrence Wright
It's their belief, their own will, that holds people in Scientology, even oftentimes when they have been abused.
Lawrence Wright
If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.
Lawrence Wright
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.
Lawrence Wright
Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.
Lawrence Wright
I've always been intrigued by why people believe one thing over another.
Lawrence Wright
The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want.
Lawrence Wright
I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.
Lawrence Wright
Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st.
Lawrence Wright
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
Lawrence Wright
If you get into Scientology, you will go to auditing. It's like therapy except that there is an E-meter between you and your auditor. That's a device that actually measures your galvanic skin responses. It's two metal cans that you hold. They used to be Campbell's Soup cans with the label scraped off.
Lawrence Wright
I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.
Lawrence Wright
From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.
Lawrence Wright
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
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.
Lawrence Wright
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
I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.
Lawrence Wright
IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
Lawrence Wright
I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.
Lawrence Wright
Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.
Lawrence Wright
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