Nishant

Nishant asked Lawrence Wright:

The Looming Tower is a hard-hitting (sort of) expose on internal politics at CIA and FBI. It also describes in detail how America has been meddling into the Middle Eastern internal and foreign affairs. Were you ever threatened by the Governments of any of the countries? Will you ever write about that?

Lawrence Wright I was never threatened. I was sometimes blocked. Saudi Arabia wouldn't let me in as a reporter after 9/11, so I finally took a job and became an ex-pat worker. The job was mentoring young reporters at a newspaper in Jeddah, bin Laden's hometown. It was so much better than being a reporter. The Minister of Interior had my car towed, but that's another story. I keep my head down and just talk to my sources as discreetly as possible, trying to be sensitive to their situation, and hoping not to put them in danger.

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Simon Mee

Simon Mee asked Lawrence Wright:

To what extent do you think history is provisional and does it make it harder to draw conclusions? I.e. is it possible that a party that appears to be a winner from a particular event now, may turn out to have been a loser from it, from a later viewpoint

Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson asked Lawrence Wright:

The Looming Tower is one of the finest books of it's kind I have ever had the pleasure of reading. You clearly went to huge lengths both in terms of your research and your ability to translate this to the page for the layman. To what extend did the process and experience of writing this book as well as your other non-fiction works impact/tailor your approach to writing a fictional novel?

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?

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