Steve Toltz Quotes - Page 3

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• I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such an unlikable character?" And I'm like, "It's me! I based him on myself!" There are certain moments where they do feel like unwittingly personal attacks.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or things that you've been watching or obsessing about. Preoccupying you for reasons you don't necessarily know, but it's about you. It says a lot about you. It's like when someone tells you their dream and you sit there going, "Do you realize how much you're revealing about yourself right now?" It's kind of embarrassing.

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Believe, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best thing you have working in your favor is a bad sense of time. In order to sit down and write a book that takes six years you have to have a screwed up sense of time because that's too daunting. No one is going to pick up a pen and a piece of paper and say, "Okay, six years, here we go."

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Trying, Amazed

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On the one hand I'm writing about somebody about whom I say in the book, "The only thing worse than being a statistic is being a statistical anomaly." So I'm writing about a particularly unlucky person. So that's a special type of hell, to be particularly unlucky.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Writing, Special

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Income, Firsts

  "Word travel with Steve Toltz". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Eye, Trying

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• There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

  Steve Toltz

  Arbitrary, Prize

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• I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

  Steve Toltz

  Enjoy

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• I dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

  Steve Toltz

  Moving, Writing, Two

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• [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 where something necessary was amputated.

  Steve Toltz

  Rain, Heart, Looks

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.215, Spiegel & Grau

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• Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

  Steve Toltz

  Voice

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• I haven't been part of the criminal world.

  Steve Toltz

  Criminals, World, Havens

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• 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 out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

  Steve Toltz

  Office, Bangs, Shrubs

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• ...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

  Steve Toltz

  Rainbow, Kitsch, Ifs

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• ...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.

  Steve Toltz

  Sports, Hate, Environmental

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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