All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. And, that's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Don't write about that which you don't know.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.

Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time.