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.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

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

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

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.