Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

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

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