Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully… — 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'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk… — 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
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.” — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — 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
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
