Steve Toltz Quotes & Sayings

“I don't 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.”

“Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.”

“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.”

“People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.”

“I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.”

“I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.”

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

“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.”

“I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.”

“I enjoy being influenced by other writers.”