All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go… — Amos Oz Copy Share
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved… — Amos Oz Copy Share
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should… — Amos Oz Copy Share
We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. — Amos Oz Copy Share
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never… — Amos Oz Copy Share
“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,… — Amos Oz Copy Share
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-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't… — Amos Oz Copy Share
