Quotes by Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Hungry

Memories

As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now.

Australia

Names

Talking

At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn’t be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, “If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write.”

Art

Children

Motivation

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality.

Night

Trying

Writing

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

Coffee

Morning

Strong

Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

Aspiration

Holocaust

Writing

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

Car

Confused

Light

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

Loss

Pain

Special

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

Good Things

Reason

Should

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Adults

Children

Used

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Adults

Age

Art

Aspiration

Australia

Born

Car

Character

Children

Coffee

Comfort

Confused

Contentment

Crazy

Enough

Feels

Good Things

Hair

Holocaust

Hungry

Hurt

Imagination

Jobs

Light

Lonely

Loss

Matter

Mean

Memories

Men

Morning

Motivation

Names

Needs

Night

Pain

People

Perfect

Personality

Reason

Relationship

Should

Sleep

Special

Strong

Struggle

Talking

Thinking

Trying

Two

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Quotes by Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality.

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

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