I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz Actually 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
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
“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
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
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz Boundaries 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
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. — Steve Toltz Animal 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
“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
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
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz Children 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
“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 know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz About 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
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to… — Steve Toltz Arseholes 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
When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone… — Steve Toltz Annoyed 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 Motivation 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 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
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. — Steve Toltz Cinema Copy Share Image
