I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

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.

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.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

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.

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.