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Elliot Perlman
Australian
Author
Born:
May 7
,
1964
Down
Life
Me
Try
Will
You
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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.
Elliot Perlman
Jews
Late
Russian
Had
Name
Talking
Polish
Came
Were
Australia
Might
Grandparents
Who
Now
Suggest
Jewish
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Elliot Perlman
History
Down
Characters
More
Somewhat
Laying
Students
Like
Make
Smoothly
Dialogue
Opposed
Go
Lecturing
Children
Wanted
Story
Avoid
Appearing
Novels
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
Elliot Perlman
Me
Quality
Try
Will
Down
Only
Write
Concerned
Affect
Being
Night
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.
Elliot Perlman
Life
You
Pickup
World
Animals
Own
Cute
Sign
Would
Fabulous
Born
Truck
Name
Like
Remotely
Rock
Dogma
Sounds
Irrational
Any
Going
Just
Taurus
Which
Prefer
Really
Your
Star
Why
Interpret
Utterly
I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.
Elliot Perlman
Life
Time
Dark
Remember
My Life
Older
Topic
Would
About
Something
More
Spoken
Know
Call
Got
Which
Holocaust
Really
Tones
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
Elliot Perlman
Vote
Women
Way
Like
Know
Mostly
Frequently
How
Contrary
Festivals
Literary
Them
Speaking
Who
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 as alert as possible.
Elliot Perlman
Me
Quality
Try
Will
Down
Possible
Only
Write
Like
Concerned
Affect
Scotch
Going
Being
Might
Awake
Keep
Night
Alert
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