“We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy.” — Elliot Perlman Time 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
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
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 can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was… — Elliot Perlman About 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
Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused — Elliot Perlman Hell 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
“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
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
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
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
“[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 History Copy Share Image
“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on… — Elliot Perlman Life 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
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
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
“He nearly called you again last night. Can you imagine that, after all this time? He can. He imagines calling you or… — elliot perlman Beach house 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
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
