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• When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write,…
• Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different…
• The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
• There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies…
• My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they…
• If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece…
• I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what…
• I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…
• In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that…
• It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective…
• Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one…
• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where…

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