“People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.”

American writer and journalist

Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. His work appears in journalism and long-form writing, and he is known for his reporting and commentary in those settings. He has 77 quotes on the site.