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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- Nic Pizzolatto

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

- 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.

- 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…

- Nic Pizzolatto