That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well..

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curio….

The Palestinians are not going anywhere - -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren't going anywhere - they have nowhere to go. But we can….

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, ….

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. ….

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature..

Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not f….

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefull….

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops..

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place..

Everybody comes from somewhere..

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain ….

We supporters of the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine are now under a fierce attack from the far right and from the far left in Israel and ….

All of my novels are democracies..

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This ….

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors..

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let me give you a c….

The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there is a European family or an Arab-Muslim….

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark..

When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in tim….

Never cut loose from your longings..