Nathan Englander

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

“Čovjekovo pravo biće pokazuje se u tri slučaja. Kad je posrijedi novac, kad govori u srdžbi i kad je pijan.”

— Nathan Englander

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

— Nathan Englander

I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager…

— Nathan Englander

I lived in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount as my holy site. My Palestinian neighbors lived in Al-Quds with the Haram al-Sharif.

— Nathan Englander

When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same…

— Nathan Englander

I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting…

— Nathan Englander

My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die.…

— Nathan Englander

“You rented an apartment with its own escape route?” “I did,” Z says. “It’s not so paranoid when you use it to…

— Nathan Englander

I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.

— Nathan Englander

I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at…

— Nathan Englander

Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in…

— Nathan Englander

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

I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't…

— Nathan Englander

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I…

— Nathan Englander

Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no…

— Nathan Englander

“This time, as with every time, when the fighting starts it will be more terrible than the fight that came before. Always…

— Nathan Englander

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing…

— Nathan Englander

I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even…

— Nathan Englander

What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.…

— Nathan Englander

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't…

— Nathan Englander

Every nation should wrestle with the question of what it means to defend itself, what it means to take revenge.

— Nathan Englander

I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.

— Nathan Englander

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is…

— Nathan Englander

“43. My couch is 92 inches; it’s a deep green three-cushion. It seats hundreds. But that’s not why I got it. I…

— Nathan Englander