Steve Toltz Quotes

Steve Toltz — Australian Novelist born on December 30, 1972,

Steve Toltz (born in 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian novelist... (wikipedia)

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

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 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.

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.

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

Steve Toltz Quotes

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