For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

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

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.