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

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.

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.

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.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.