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!
regret empty ifs
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.
voice
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
rain heart looks
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.
children vegas looks
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.
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.
rainbow kitsch ifs
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
enjoy
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
arbitrary prize
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
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.