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title: "2 Affect Quotes By Elliot Perlman"
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> [Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/being-an-insomniac-only-slows-me-down-i-try-not-to-write-at-night-as/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

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> [Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/being-an-insomniac-only-slows-me-down-i-try-not-to-write-at-night-as-2/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

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## Other authors on Affect

## More by Elliot Perlman

> [You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/you-would-love-the-way-he-sees-you-he-uses-you-as-a-weapon-against/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/simon-and-i-by-then-were-practicing-to-be-apart-rehearsing-together/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/when-the-words-dance-privately-for-you-it-is-possible-to-feel-not/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/madeline-my-wife-never-used-to-wear-a-watch-she-does-now-i-am-told/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/anyway-it-wasn-t-your-reading-that-started-this-it-was-the-laugher/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“While he recognized that you were unhappy and unwell, I think he couldn't help but feel that there was some part of you, some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/while-he-recognized-that-you-were-unhappy-and-unwell-i-think-he/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“I asked her where she got her toughness. She pretended she didn't understand. Maybe she didn't at first, or maybe she had forgotten that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/i-asked-her-where-she-got-her-toughness-she-pretended-she-didn-t/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [“He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/he-uses-you-as-a-weapon-against-himself-and-not-merely-because-you/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/at-difficult-times-of-my-life-books-have-been-an-incredible-comfort/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/why-did-i-start-with-them-why-do-any-of-us-choose-one-company-over/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/listen-all-that-she-was-then-all-that-she-is-now-those-gestures/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/it-s-like-the-smell-of-burned-toast-you-made-the-toast-you-looked/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/you-know-you-re-in-love-with-somebody-when-you-wake-up-next-to-them/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [ \[Memory\] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/memory-visits-when-it-is-hungry-not-when-you-are/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

> [I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliot-perlman/i-ll-be-happy-if-i-can-gain-even-the-smallest-place-inside-the/)

[Elliot Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliot-perlman/)

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