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

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.

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.

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

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

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