The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
Nic PizzolattoI 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.
Nic PizzolattoThere'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 PizzolattoAnd if weโre talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.
Nic Pizzolatto