Steve Toltz Quotes About Books

• Me apuntó con la pistola. Luego miró a mi mano y se inclinó la cabeza ligeramente. - Viaje, dijo. Había olvidado que aún sostenía el libro. - Céline, le respondí en un susurro. - Me encanta ese libro. - Sólo voy por la mitad. - ¿Has llegado al punto en que... -¡Eh, mátame, pero no me cuentes el final!

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Gun, Journey

• 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

• We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had this whole brainy idea at the outset. As though there is something less about it if it comes out of the process of discovery.

  Steve Toltz

  Believe, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books that you would never dare to say to people in real life. So there is that feeling of acute embarrassment, or that you've been too revealing. I think it's some kind of survival mechanism where I never think of the reader, ever. Because then I would start censoring myself.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Libro, Pensamiento

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to read masterpieces. I just want to read one amazing book after another. As a completist you are generally reading the bad ones.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Reading, Masterpiece

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what I love about them isn't just the particular construction of one novel or another but their flavor. There is an Austrian writer, Thomas Bernhard, as well. One book is not necessarily greater than another book, but they just have this incredible, unique voice, so it doesn't really matter which one you read.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Unique, Incredibles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Libro, Escritura, Largo

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just working out their obsessions. I think I'm a combination. I think, at least for these books, I'm going with fear. I've always been interested in fear. Fear is something I've dealt with in life, and I think it's the main motivating factor of everything, almost. From sex to politics.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• No hay nada maravilloso ni interesante en el amor no correspondido. Creo que es una mierda, simplemente una mierda. Amar a alguien que no te corresponde puede ser emocionante en los libros, pero en la vida es insoportablemente aburrido. Te diré lo que es excitante: noches sudorosas y apasionadas. Pero sentarse en la veranda frente a la casa de una mujer dormida que no sueña contigo es lento y sencillamente triste.

  Steve Toltz

  Sueño, Mudanza, Libro

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.116, Spiegel & Grau

• 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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