Nic Pizzolatto

“For the rest of the day, her weight echoed in my empty hands, light but dense, her throes and kicks.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

— Nic Pizzolatto

“She reminded me of the empty glass of a swallowed cocktail, and at the heart of the empty glass was a smashed…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

— Nic Pizzolatto

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“She sipped her drink and the ends of her lips curled, stamped two dimples on her cheeks, and in her smile flashed…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“So I was wrong when I told Rocky you could choose what you feel. It's not true. It's not even true that…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“The sensation of a thing forgotten but resonating.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“You’re here because it’s somewhere. Dogs pant in the streets. Beer won’t stay cold. The last new song you liked came out…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“For both of us the landscape had a gravity that tugged us backward in time, possessed us with people we used to…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“I suppose you have to be very careful how you use your memories.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

— Nic Pizzolatto

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“An expandable gold watchband nestled in the thick hair of his wrist.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how…

— Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

“When it worked, reading could take away the burden of time.”

— Nic Pizzolatto