Christian Hamaker
Christian Hamaker asked Lawrence Wright:

You've won a Pulitzer Prize, but you've also lost after being nominated for a National Book Award for "Going Clear." How do you handle losing an award of that stature? Do you quietly seethe every time you see a reference to the book that won the award in that category instead of your book? (I do. You're too polite and diplomatic to say it, but your book was better.) Thanks for your outstanding work.

Lawrence Wright I try to be zen about success and failure, winning and losing, etc. The joy is really in the process of creation. You don't have any control over how people react. This is not to say that I don't stew over bad reviews.

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