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. Steve Toltz Read Quote
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. Steve Toltz Read Quote
I know you’re supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week. Steve Toltz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If I’ve written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It’s like I need eight hours to do two hours’ work. Steve Toltz Read Quote
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. Steve Toltz Read Quote
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz Read Quote
I don’t have a great respect for reality or getting the ‘facts’ as a means of putting together a story. Steve Toltz Read Quote