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As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
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I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
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I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
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Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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You can remember without seeing it.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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A word is a lot.
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If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.
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I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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An awfully beautiful story, but it isn't mine.
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My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
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I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.
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The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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