It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them. Nic Pizzolatto authenticitycharactercompel Change image and share on social
The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy. Nic Pizzolatto conspiracyencounterhappen Change image and share on social
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal. Nic Pizzolatto bearcombinationdisquiet share on social
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. Nic Pizzolatto absoluteconfessionalconspiracy share on social
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 connectdegreelevel Change image and share on social
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty. Nic Pizzolatto consciencedealdeath Change image and share on social
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced 'twist,' I think. Nic Pizzolatto baddreamflip Change image and share on social
