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I'm one of three brothers.
Howard Gordon / Television Writer
Brother
Three
Three Brothers
Brothers
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Where I came from, no one was a writer.
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The novel remains a very special form for me.
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Form
Novel
Special
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I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
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Council
International
Members
Pacific
Policy
Member
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In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
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Imagination
Limitation
Novel
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Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
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Lips
Scarves
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In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
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Novel
Pure
Reader
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Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.
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Effort
Proud
Stuff
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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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Novel
Novelists
Princeton
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Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
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Listening
Practice
Promise
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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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Conservative
Issues
Social
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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.
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Crafts
Stories
Writing
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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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Novel
Overwhelming
Writing
Daunting
Doing Always Things
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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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Harsh
Process
Village
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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 to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.
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Able
Character
Solitude
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I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.
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Teacher
Doctors
Islands
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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, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.
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Character
Real
Tv Shows
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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 interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.
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Ink
Media
Tv Shows
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When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.
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Character
Profound
Tv Shows
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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 novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.
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Adapting
Eye
Function
People
Writing
Circuit
Towards
Short Stories
Simultaneously
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What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.
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Character
Thinking
Voice
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