I'm one of three brothers.

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

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.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

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

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.

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