Detective Quote by 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 lime rind…

— 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 2010 for…

— 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 ideas I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

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

— 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 you can…

— 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 upon it.

— 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 and women…

— Nic Pizzolatto