For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the gritties… - Nic Pizzolatto
And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the gritties…
- Nic Pizzolatto
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. - Nic Pizzolatto
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life. - Nic Pizzolatto
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the bes… - Nic Pizzolatto
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the bes…
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your … - Nic Pizzolatto
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your …
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer. - Nic Pizzolatto
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn… - Nic Pizzolatto
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn…
I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't e… - Nic Pizzolatto
I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't e…
As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself. - Nic Pizzolatto
As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
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