Zitat des Tages von Elliot Perlman:
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.
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.
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 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.
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
