A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.