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?

Lawrence Wright Thanks, Andrew, those are very interesting questions. let me start with the last one. I wish I had taken my own future more seriously. I was an indifferent student, and I've spent a lot of time trying to make up for that. Magazines will continue, in one form or another. I thought I was in a dying industry for a long time but I've seen how hungry people are to get into subjects deeply, and that's what magazines offer. Prepare yourself by acquiring skills: languages, history, political science, explore ardently and never stop. And you'll have a wonderful career.

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