Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz 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 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 actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.” — Steve Toltz 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
“The problem is most of the time when God’s supposed to be the hero, he comes across as the villain. I mean, look at… — Steve Toltz 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 a stump… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs… — Steve Toltz 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 crazy experiences… — Steve Toltz 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 that child… — Steve Toltz 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 Copy Share Image
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… — 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 enough joy,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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