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

- Nathan Englander

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 …

- Nathan Englander

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…

- Nathan Englander

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…

- Nathan Englander

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…

- Nathan Englander

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…

- Nathan Englander

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 …

- Nathan Englander

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 …

- Nathan Englander

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

- Nathan Englander