There Are Two Kinds Of People, Those

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.

Often, The Stories Are Very Much Like Trust Falls. You Fall, And You Hope The Story's Going To Catch You.

Nobody Else In The World Would Look At Writing As Craftsmanship - It's Totally This Protestant Hardworking Ethic. You Go Into This Kind Of Infinite Space Of Imagination And You Fence Yourself In With All Kinds Of Laws.

Most Of The Jewish Writer Friends I Have Are American, And I Feel Closer To Them Because They're Always Obsessed With One Issue - Identity: What Does It Mean To Be An American Jew?

In Israel, There Is This Reduction Of The Political Discourse To Something That Is Very Limited. It's As If You Have That Pitch That Only Dogs Can Hear. Sometimes I Feel I Speak At Such A Pitch That Very Few People Around Me Communicate With What I'm Saying.