Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

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.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

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.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

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