Top 19 Howard Gordon Quotes

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

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

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#4. Where I came from, no one was a writer.

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

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#6. The novel remains a very special form for me.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

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

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

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

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

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#15. 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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#16. I'm one of three brothers.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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