If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
Nic PizzolattoAt DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.
Nic PizzolattoI don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
Nic PizzolattoI knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
Nic Pizzolatto