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.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

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

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

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.