Novelist Quotes

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.
Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy.
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.
There'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.
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.
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.
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.
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