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

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.