Steve Toltz Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton?
Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space.
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.
Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two?
We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room.
The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
It would annoy me to be killed by someone who doesn't especially hate me as an individual, or who I didn't personally betray.
Come on, just say, "I do." It comes from the verb "to do." That's all you need for now. Then we'll move you on to "I did.
Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death.
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem.
We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity.
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.
We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words.
She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.
I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read.
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.