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

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

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

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.

And if we’re 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.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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.