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“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.” quote by Howard Gordon — Download Open image

“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.”

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

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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…

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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,…

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Where I came from, no one was a writer.

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

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

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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?

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The novel remains a very special form for me.

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

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

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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…

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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 doing.

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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