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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Howard Gordon

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about…

— Howard Gordon

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

— Howard Gordon

I'm one of three brothers.

— Howard Gordon

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

— Howard Gordon

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,…

— Howard Gordon

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

— Howard Gordon

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

— Howard Gordon

What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively…

— Howard Gordon

When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may…

— Howard Gordon