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

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

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movi….

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

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..

I'm one of three brothers..

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 engin….

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

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

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?.

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..

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 ill….

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 ….

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 exe….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

The novel remains a very special form for me..