We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

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

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