...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Blasphemous Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful. — Steve Toltz Fiction Copy Share Image
“Why groups never follow the sweet, gentle child is obvious, but I wish it would happen just once.” — Steve Toltz Child Copy Share Image
We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets” — Steve Toltz Dawn Copy Share Image
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to… — Steve Toltz Beast Copy Share Image
I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to… — Steve Toltz Amazing book Copy Share Image
We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Care Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Jehovah Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“That’s what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts… — Steve Toltz First love Copy Share Image
“As I passed through the gates, the blistered hands of nostalgia gave my heart a good squeeze and I realized you miss… — Steve Toltz End of the day Copy Share Image
“If there is a God, I doubt he is such a hard-liner. Rather, I imagine him greeting the men and women who… — Steve Toltz God Copy Share Image
“How could I tell him that I now wanted what he had once wanted----to travel on trains and fall in love with… — Steve Toltz Dark eyes Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Desperation Copy Share Image
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
“I couldn't think of anything other than her and the components of her. For example, her red hair. But was I so… — Steve Toltz First love Copy Share Image
“Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman because of the way I churned through… — Steve Toltz Books Copy Share Image
Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of… — Steve Toltz Bad luck Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
“We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.” — Steve Toltz Adventure Copy Share Image
“Come on, just say, "I do." It comes from the verb "to do." That's all you need for now. Then we'll move… — Steve Toltz Life Copy Share Image
“Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the… — Steve Toltz Death Copy Share Image
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know. — Steve Toltz Advice Copy Share Image
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
