Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.