Top 32 Quotes by Simon Toyne

About Simon Toyne

These are some quotes by British author Simon Toyne Writer, who was born on February 29, 1968.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

Simon Toyne

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Simon Toyne

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

Simon Toyne

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

Simon Toyne

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us.

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us.

Simon Toyne

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.

Simon Toyne

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

Simon Toyne

'Sanctus' deals with creation myths in every culture. It fascinates me that all cultures, evolving independently, have similar models of mankind's origins, of a Greater Being, of the flood, and so on. It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.

Simon Toyne

I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.

I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.

Simon Toyne

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

Simon Toyne

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