All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without exception, my n….

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palesti….

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable..

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them..

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect..

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task..

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words..

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period..

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majorit….

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpow….

A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of….

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a nove….

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish..

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or….

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001..

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well..

The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right abo….

The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at ….

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demons….

I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a dayt….

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies..