What Do They Think They're Getting Out of Talking to You?

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deno: I still sometimes surprising. What do they think they're getting out of talking to you? One of the first interviews i had with somebody that had actually been in the organization wasi was in sudan from late 91 to 96. And e, at the time, i had been doing so much travelling, id injured my back. So a knock on the door, and there's amedsunes in tal gy and this other man. He knew everything about ben laden - he was an incredibly valuable source.

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

”There’s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that’s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that’s a big job. It’s a great privilege.”

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