"Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience……" — Amos Oz
"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 ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant."
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31 Quotes by Amos Oz
Amos Oz has 31 quotes on this site.
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came…
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much…
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano…
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All of my novels are democracies.
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position…
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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and…
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a…
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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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