Actor David Duchovny, 54, is trying on a new role with the publication of his first novel, Holy Cow, about a talking cow, pig and turkey that go on the lam when they discover they're destined for the dinner table. The star of Californication,The X-Files(who says he's on board for a limited-series return) and the upcoming Aquarius on NBC spoke with USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClurg from his apartment on Central Park West. "Wow, I just saw a hawk fly by," he reports.
Q: You're a literary guy. You have a master's in literature from Yale and were working on a Ph.D. when you instead became an actor. Is this a dream come true, to write a novel?
A: I'd say if you would have asked me when I was 19 or 20 what are you, what do you want to be, I would have said a writer. The way I got into acting, I thought let me try my hand at playwriting, and if I'm going to do that I should learn something about acting. I've always thought of myself as a writer. I got to write some of the X-Files (episodes), I've written (the 2004 film) House of D, I've written a couple other screenplays that I may or may not now turn into novels since it's so hard to get an independent film made. This feels more natural than what's happened in the last 20 years for me.
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