Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon
Howard Gordonis an American television writer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
special form novel
The novel remains a very special form for me.
novelists princeton novel
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.
eye writing people
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.
Where I came from, no one was a writer.
media tv-shows different
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.
writing novel overwhelming
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.
brother three three-brothers
I'm one of three brothers.
members policy council
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
teacher islands doctors
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.
practice listening promise
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
character thinking voice
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.
scarves lips
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
happen kidding mean next
I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it.
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I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.