Steve Toltz

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

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.