Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. It may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

Every language has influences and is an influence.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

Things can be translated, but they become different.