Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

Don't write about that which you don't know.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

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 am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.