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Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz

Australian Novelist

Born: 1972

Always Every Light People Writing You

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There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Steve Toltz

Arbitrary About Something Prizes

I enjoy being influenced by other writers. Steve Toltz

Enjoy Other Writers Being Influenced

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

Great Respect Together Reality Facts Great Respect Putting Getting Story Means

I haven't been part of the criminal world. Steve Toltz

World Criminal Part Been

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like. Steve Toltz

Dinner Somebody Sit Through Like

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

Day You Writing Hide Reading Whatever Thinking See About Week Suppose Supposed Know Been Influences Really Your

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. Steve Toltz

Writing Writer Sure Always Wanted

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. Steve Toltz

Love Thomas Voice Writer Raymond His Lot Really

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. Steve Toltz

You People Light Older Think Side Guess See Able More Empathy Lighter Know Get Just Less Things

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