I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.