I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

All of my novels are democracies.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.

We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.