Elliot Perlman Quotes

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

Being tired doesn't necessarily make me grumpy but I do find it incredibly hard to focus or get anything done.

Missing even one night of shuteye will impact your ability to concentrate the next day. And it only gets worse if you deprive yourself of sleep night after night.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

I would prefer to get more sleep, quite frankly, because I think I would be more productive at everything.

The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

I've heard Simon Cowell is awake all through the night... To be honest that is when I get all my work done.

I don't sleep. I have a notepad next to my bed.

When you're not sleeping, you're not thinking straight.

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

I can go round the clock without sleep.