Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltzis an Australian novelist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
real loss thinking
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
rainbow kitsch ifs
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
enjoy
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
book eye trying
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
writing income firsts
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
memories language easy
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?
moving writing two
I dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.
thinking animal water
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
jobs air games
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.
eye airplane moon
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
real men giving
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.
love-you dozen might
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.
sports hate environmental
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.
people suffering secret
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.