The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in ord….

I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlem….

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination..

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the sa….

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote i….

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded..

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of personal morality than s….

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let….

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another..

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing..

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to ….

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life"..

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokespe….

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered..

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world..

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article an….

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagina….

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets ….

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves….

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this si….

I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace..