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

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

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

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

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.