Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltzis an Australian novelist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
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.
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?
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.
buttons email amen
Amen' is like the Send button on an email.