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.
thinking demand
I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
book journey gun
He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said. I had forgotten I was still holding the book. - Céline, I said back in a whisper. - I love that book. - I'm only halfway through. - Have you got to the point where -- - Hey, kill me, but don't tell me the end!
men giving honor
I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.
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.
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.
arbitrary prize
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
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.