101 Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

Vision is meaning. Meaning is historical.

I 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.

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

The past isn’t real.

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

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn’t have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don’t think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

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’re here because it’s somewhere. Dogs pant in the streets. Beer won’t stay cold. The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore.

Clarity, I think, is the chief thing. Find a road and walk it.