I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

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

When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.