To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz Children Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Always Copy Share Image
I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful. — Steve Toltz Truth Copy Share Image
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room. — Steve Toltz Anger 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
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 Declined 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
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 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
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 Am 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 don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just… — Steve Toltz Anything 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
I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the… — Steve Toltz Able Copy Share Image
Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped… — Steve Toltz Adults 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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 experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always… — Steve Toltz Birth Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.” — Steve Toltz Buddhism 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
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
“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
[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
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 made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. — Steve Toltz Cinema 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
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