Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltzis an Australian novelist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryAustralia
dinner sit somebody
I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
guess less lighter side
I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.
extreme extremely funny pessimism unless whereas
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
dare gave people
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
element incredibly united
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
location move
I don't 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.
hide supposed whatever
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.
hopefully shall
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
knew
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
world criminals havens
I haven't been part of the criminal world,
thinking people burning
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
burden
Friendships are an unforseeable burden.
half moments endless
The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
office shrubs bangs
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.