Australian - Novelist | 1972 -
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
Steve Toltz
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I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
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People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.
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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.
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Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
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Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
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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.
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