I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someon…

- Aharon Appelfeld

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

- Aharon Appelfeld

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

- Aharon Appelfeld

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

- Aharon Appelfeld

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

- Aharon Appelfeld

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

- Aharon Appelfeld

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

- Aharon Appelfeld

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and wr…

- Aharon Appelfeld

I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

- Aharon Appelfeld