In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.

If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.