Steve Toltz Quotes

Australia, Novelist
1972

Steve Toltz is an Australian novelist. A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts.

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

Steve Toltz
- Reality
- Story
- Facts
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Steve Toltz
- Effort
- Forget
- Memory

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Steve Toltz
I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Steve Toltz
- Respect
- Demand
- Got It
Sometimes they people throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Steve Toltz
- Freedom
- Burning
- Throw
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Steve Toltz
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

Steve Toltz
- Faces
- Secrets
- Carry
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Steve Toltz

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Steve Toltz
- Blame
- Failures
- Losers
Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Steve Toltz
- Nothing
- Afraid
- Have