I Don't Write Novels About Expeditions To

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 Spokesperson Of The Israeli Left, Another One Will Be The Spokesperson Of The Right, Another One Will Be The Spokesperson Of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, Religions Jews And So On.

Things Can Be Translated, But They Become Different.

When People Have Peace, They Hate It And Long For Excitement, And When They Have Excitement, They Want Peace.

I Know One Or Two Things About Fanaticism And Death, And I Reject Them.

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's Say From Hebrew Into English Or From English Into Hebrew, Becomes A Different Book Because Language Is A Musical Instrument.