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The Amazing Thing About An Artistic Collaboration Is That It Is As Intense And Intimate As A Romantic One. Sometimes Even More So.

Hebrew Is This Unique Thing That You Cannot Translate To Any Other Language. It Has To Do With Its History.

I Write What Needs To Be Written The Way That Seems Genuinely Right. If What Comes Out Of It Are Stories, Then It Is My Vocation To Believe In Them And In The Fact That They'll Interest People And Maybe Affect Their Lives.

When My Works Are Being Translated, I Always Get This Question From My Translators: Up Or Down? Which Means, Should It Sound Biblical And Highbrow, Or Should We Take It All Down To Sound Colloquial? In Hebrew, It's Both All The Time. People In Israel Would Write In A High Register, They Wouldn't Write Colloquial Speech. I Do A Special Take On Colloquial Speech.

To What Extent Does Anybody Control His Destiny? Life Is Very Much Like Falling Of The Edge Of A Cliff. You Have Complete Freedom To Make All The Choices You Want To Take On Your Way Down. My Characters Choose To Yearn And Not Lose Hope Even When The Odds Are Completely Against Them. It Doesn't Make The Landing At The End Of That Fall Any Less Painful But, Somehow, It Helps Them Keep A Little Dignity Their Bone Broken Body.