How to Budget for a Story as Immortal as Looming Tower

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I didn't really know what i was getting into the answer when i signed the contract for the book in a february two thousand two. So honestlyi had no little idea about the scope and what was going to be required. But, you know, it was more like a mission than just an assignment. And so i wanted to go all the way through on this one,. You know, t get in as deeply as possible and try to under and why what happened happened? Was that a personal risk for you?

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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