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.
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.
buttons email amen
Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
children responsibility
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
kids parent blame
Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.
laughing optimism pessimism
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.