42 Quotes by Howard Gordon

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

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