You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in J….

I think books can cure cancer and grow back hair. I can't say it enough. For me, that's why it's so syrupy. It's both syrupy and over the top, and ov….

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't wa….

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one..

The Israel Palestine thing, there are infinite sides to each side, but if we stick to the main sides, everybody's in the same boat and it's maddening….

You cannot learn to curse like an American..

I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move….

Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Wha….

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books..

I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of someone who's fall….

To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story doesn't cross over, it's not ….

I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an actual noticeable percentage of my reading ti….

I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I used to say, "Here'….

I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relatio….

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a ….

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that I'm naturally amp….

The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to ….

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel..