You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“These are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea.” — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'm just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front... Everyone's always,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“This time, as with every time, when the fighting starts it will be more terrible than the fight that came before. Always… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.” — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
