Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltzis an Australian novelist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
memories past thinking
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
memories jehovah looks
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.
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?
memories memorable effort
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
hide supposed whatever
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.
hopefully shall
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
element incredibly united
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
dinner sit somebody
I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
location move
I don't 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.
dare gave people
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
people quite
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.
guess less lighter side
I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.
extreme extremely funny pessimism unless whereas
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.