Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.