Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I think everything that happens to you becomes a part of what you end up doing and being and standing for.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

People grow up by living.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.