Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltzis an Australian novelist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
dream moving book
There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.
relationship talking piano
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
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.
dream sick criminals
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?
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.
eight five hours might pages throw work worth written
If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.
mean reality together
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
mean sick deterioration
We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
thinking animal water
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
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.
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.
real loss thinking
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
world criminals havens
I haven't been part of the criminal world,