Peter Corrigan
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Lawrence Wright:
I've read 'The Looming Tower' and 'Going Clear' both of which were outstanding. How difficult was the transition to fiction? Was the amount of research similar or considerably less (or more)?
Lawrence Wright
It seems to me the process for both nonfiction and the kind of fiction I like to write are similar. For fiction, it's not as necessary to interview the entire field of possible sources, as I try to do in my nonfiction. What I'm looking for in sources, at least with this novel, were more like co-conspirators. I needed people who would let me into their labs, open up their imaginations, tutor me in science, etc. I wound up with some brilliant sources who are now leading the effort to formulate a vaccine.
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Granny Weatherwax
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Lawrence Wright:
Remembering Satan is a book that will always remain on my shelves and will not find itself in the second hand bookshop. The satanic panic epidemic depresses and frustrates me terribly. How do you cope with coming across events in your research that are obviously unjust but which you can do nothing about?
Niklas Pivic
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Lawrence Wright:
How do you, as a writer, avoid becoming a caricature of yourself?
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