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

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

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

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.

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.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

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.