David Grossman

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like…

— David Grossman

“For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold...”

— David Grossman

“She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she’d been…

— David Grossman

“Three men!” he yells, holding up three fingers. “An Italian, a Frenchman, and a Jew sit in a bar talking about how…

— David Grossman

“Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish…

— David Grossman

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out…

— David Grossman

“Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little…

— David Grossman

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life,…

— David Grossman

“Hoe zei jij dat ook alweer, over de wrede keuze: de woordeloosheid levend en levendig houden, of onder woorden brengen.”

— David Grossman

“Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.”

— David Grossman

“The body is so beautiful, she says with newly found wonder she senses. So good and so precious. Sweet, this body of…

— David Grossman

“And then my grandfather explained -in his language- that utopias are not for mortals. And that people are like flies, that the…

— David Grossman

“You know how the minute you get a disease, especially if it's a really juicy one, the kind with excellent potential to…

— David Grossman

“That's the only way I can somehow get close to it, to that goddamn it , without it killing me, you know?…

— David Grossman

“ Want-- I want-- I want, we want to wake up, to wake out of it, to wake into the light, I…

— David Grossman

“That night, on a narrow bed in a rented room in a strange city, a dream was dreamed.”

— David Grossman

“She seems to be resuscitating me from far away as soon as I start to weaken. I close my eyes and see…

— David Grossman

“Something has fallen asleep there, that's all, but it's warm, and it's hers, it's the pain imprinted on her, and his healing…

— David Grossman

“More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she…

— David Grossman

“I'd feel equaly out of place anywhere”

— David Grossman

“it is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.”

— David Grossman

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

— David Grossman

“She had not yet sensed the pea beneath the pile of mattresses, the pea that belonged to the little brown-skinned girl who…

— David Grossman

“I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.”

— David Grossman

“And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember…

— David Grossman