Kevin McTigue
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Lawrence Wright:
Who is the most interesting person you've interviewed in your career? Who was the most difficult?
Lawrence Wright
there's no way I can say the most interesting. Some have been very influential in my life. There was a witch, Starhawk, who gave me some advice when I was about to make my first public speech. I was frightened of speaking in public. I couldn't even ask questions at press conferences. My voice would tremble and my knees would knock. Starhawk told me, "We witches have a saying. Where there's fear, there's power." I realized that it was my own vulnerability that frightened me. I made my speech, and my voice did tremble, but after that I was never afraid of speaking in public.
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Will Harahan
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Lawrence Wright:
You have a knack for being prescient, as was the case when you wrote the screenplay for the underrated Ed Zwick film The Siege, and now again with a novel on a pandemic. How do you manage to remain ahead of the curve with two of the most significant events of the last twenty-five years?
Niklas Pivic
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Lawrence Wright:
How do you, as a writer, avoid becoming a caricature of yourself?
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