“When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.” — Elliot Perlman Dance Copy Share Image
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers. — Elliot Perlman Be happy Copy Share Image
“We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy.” — Elliot Perlman Comedy Copy Share Image
“The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.” — Elliot Perlman Click Copy Share Image
“...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.” — Elliot Perlman Communication Copy Share Image
You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and… — Elliot Perlman Enough Copy Share Image
As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s,… — Elliot Perlman Australia Copy Share Image
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did — Elliot Perlman Love Copy Share Image
I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside… — Elliot Perlman Good thing Copy Share Image
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if… — Elliot Perlman Ambiguity Copy Share Image
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the… — Elliot Perlman Animals Copy Share Image
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess,… — Elliot Perlman About Copy Share Image
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed… — Elliot Perlman Appearing Copy Share Image
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has… — Elliot Perlman Anecdotes Copy Share Image
You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old… — Elliot Perlman Bottom Copy Share Image
“…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that… — Elliot Perlman Beach house Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Art Copy Share Image
It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but… — Elliot Perlman Burned Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Able Copy Share Image
“I asked her where she got her toughness. She pretended she didn't understand. Maybe she didn't at first, or maybe she had… — Elliot Perlman Little girl Copy Share Image
“He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights… — Elliot Perlman Lying Copy Share Image
Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At… — Elliot Perlman Business Copy Share Image
“Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became… — Elliot Perlman Food Copy Share Image
What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? — Elliot Perlman Born Copy Share Image
Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused — Elliot Perlman Hell Copy Share Image
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to… — Elliot Perlman Contrary Copy Share Image
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the… — Elliot Perlman Affect Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman After Copy Share Image
Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career. — Elliot Perlman Careers Copy Share Image
I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less… — Elliot Perlman Adults Copy Share Image
“What he and many people don't understand is that there is more to depression than a sometimes overwhelming feeling of inadequacy and… — Elliot Perlman Depression Copy Share Image
“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding… — Elliot Perlman Historians Copy Share Image
“Steinbeck wasn't the thirties and Dickens wasn't the eighteen-hundreds. They were of their times but for the ages. Their writings are not… — Elliot Perlman Time Copy Share Image
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think… — Elliot Perlman Character Copy Share Image
In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure… — Elliot Perlman Alone Copy Share Image
You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can… — Elliot Perlman Crazy Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and… — Elliot Perlman Accepting Copy Share Image
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