Andrew Mostert

Andrew Mostert asked Lawrence Wright:

I'm a sophomore college student. I really admire your curiosity and the attentiveness you bring to your writing. What advice would you give me if I asked you how I can some day have a career like yours? Do you think it would be significantly more difficult for someone of my generation to become a magazine writer in the America of the near future? What do you wish you spent more time doing when you were my age?

Lawrence Wright Thanks, Andrew, those are very interesting questions. let me start with the last one. I wish I had taken my own future more seriously. I was an indifferent student, and I've spent a lot of time trying to make up for that. Magazines will continue, in one form or another. I thought I was in a dying industry for a long time but I've seen how hungry people are to get into subjects deeply, and that's what magazines offer. Prepare yourself by acquiring skills: languages, history, political science, explore ardently and never stop. And you'll have a wonderful career.

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Bracken

Bracken asked Lawrence Wright:

How does your research for non-fiction books compare to the research you conduct for books like The End of October? Are there any details gleaned from your time in journalism or writing non-fiction that you incorporated into the novel?

Matt

Matt asked Lawrence Wright:

Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question! Your books seem to be about a much wider variety of topics and themes than a lot of authors. How do you choose what to write about next? Is there a theme that underlies all of your book topics?

Jerry

Jerry asked Lawrence Wright:

Hi Mr. Lawrence, thanks for the Looming Tower, it's a great read. You note that Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered in Turkey by the Saudis, was a confidant of UBL. Why do you think Khashoggi was murdered? What are you thoughts as to why this connection was never, to my knowledge, acknowledged in the US press coverage of that event. I think the press saw it as an opportunity to smear Trump, nothing more.

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