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

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

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

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.