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 More Quotes by Steve Toltz More Quotes From Steve Toltz We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable. Steve Toltz deterioration sick mean Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized? Steve Toltz language easy memories 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. Steve Toltz real giving men 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 writing long book Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. Steve Toltz voice I enjoy being influenced by other writers. Steve Toltz enjoy There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Steve Toltz prize arbitrary 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 eye trying book I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed. Steve Toltz income writing firsts I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. Steve Toltz real loss thinking 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 writing two moving I haven't been part of the criminal world. Steve Toltz criminals havens world If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because it would take so long. I never believed I could do two things at once. The jobs I had were minimum wage jobs that you wouldn't want to pursue for too long, or that couldn't really take over your life. Steve Toltz over-you long fall The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. Steve Toltz endless moments half [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 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 suffering secret people I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's more of a thing in America, because you have writing programs, which we don't have. You have these amazing writers who are teachers. I never did a writing program so I never met a writer until I was published. I guess I can't really explain my compulsion for writing these kind of mentor characters. Steve Toltz writing teacher art He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly. - Journey, he said. I had forgotten I was still holding the book. - Céline, I said back in a whisper. - I love that book. - I'm only halfway through. - Have you got to the point where -- - Hey, kill me, but don't tell me the end! Steve Toltz gun journey book 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. Steve Toltz honor giving men I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. Steve Toltz together mean reality
