“It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.” — Steve Toltz Aspired Copy Share Image
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' — Steve Toltz Book Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz His Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz Horror Copy Share Image
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos. — Steve Toltz Effortless 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 Airplane 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 Admired Copy Share Image
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting,… — Steve Toltz Effort Copy Share Image
“Don’t be sad for me unless you’re prepared to be sad your whole lives. Otherwise forget it. What good’s a couple of… — Steve Toltz Hard Week Copy Share Image
“I have too much free time. Free time makes people think; thinking makes people morbidly self-absorbed; and unless you are watertight and… — Steve Toltz Depression 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
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
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even… — Steve Toltz Bearable 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
It's the idea of baggage. When you hear about people in their 40s boast about not having baggage. I think having no… — Steve Toltz Boast Copy Share Image
I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or… — Steve Toltz About yourself Copy Share Image
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean,… — Steve Toltz God hope 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
I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such… — Steve Toltz Character 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
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
“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
There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here… — Steve Toltz Break Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Crazy Copy Share Image
“While Terry joined the others in the pool, I subjected myself to a dreadful thing called musical chairs, another cruel game. There's… — Steve Toltz Children Copy Share Image
“I’ll teach you how to decipher all the confused faces by closing your eyes & how to cringe when someone says the… — Steve Toltz Closing your eyes Copy Share Image
“Betrayal wears a lot of different hats. You don’t have to make a show of it like Brutus did, you don’t have… — Steve Toltz Best friend 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
“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
...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. — Steve Toltz Kitsch Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Exaggeration 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
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