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

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

I'm not in the service business.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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

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