Thinking Quotes by Howard Gordon

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the…

— Howard Gordon

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel,…

— Howard Gordon

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

— Howard Gordon

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

— Howard Gordon

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

— Howard Gordon

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

— Howard Gordon

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are…

— Howard Gordon

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able…

— Howard Gordon