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
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. — Steve Toltz Cinema Copy Share Image
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real… — Steve Toltz Cruelty Copy Share Image
[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has… — Steve Toltz Heart Copy Share Image
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Exaggeration Copy Share Image
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
On the one hand I'm writing about somebody about whom I say in the book, "The only thing worse than being a… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the… — Steve Toltz Art Copy Share Image
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and… — Steve Toltz Casino Copy Share Image
When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here… — Steve Toltz 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
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Toltz Affection Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Art Copy Share Image
“You never hear of a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident and for good reason; in order for… — Steve Toltz Music Copy Share Image
“Humans are unique in this world in that, as opposed to all other animals, they have developed a consciousness so advanced that… — Steve Toltz Consciousness Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Anarchist 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
“It's always something here - if there isn't a riot, then someone's usually trying to escape. The wasted effort helps me see… — Steve Toltz Freedom Copy Share Image
I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
“The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending… — Steve Toltz Ending relationship Copy Share Image
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz Facts Copy Share Image
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't… — Steve Toltz Confusion Copy Share Image
“I dug out an old brown suitcase and threw a few clothes into it, then looked around my bedroom for memorabilia, but… — Steve Toltz Memories Copy Share Image
If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap.… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without… — Steve Toltz Art Copy Share Image
She gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me… — Steve Toltz Love Copy Share Image
“Problem is, Jews don’t believe in hell, so there isn’t the same readily accessible chamber of fear the Catholics have up their… — Steve Toltz Fear Copy Share Image
“Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you… — Steve Toltz Men Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz America Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
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