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People In Israel Would Write In A High Register, They Wouldn't Write Colloquial Speech. I Do A Special Take On Colloquial Speech. When I Started Writing, I Thought [the Language] Was Telling The Story Of This Country: Old People In A Young Nation, Very Religious, Very Conservative, Very Tight-assed, But Also Very Anarchistic, Very Open-minded. It's All In The Language, And That's One Thing That Doesn't Translate.

Maybe In The General Scheme Of Things He Couldn't Find Any Meaning In Life, But On A Smaller Scale It Was Okay. Not Always, But A Lot Of The Time.

Being Published In Arabic Is A Strong And Consistent Wish I Have. I Live In The Middle East And Want To Be In Some Sort Of An Unpragmatic Dialogue With My Neighbors.

I Rarely Return To Characters. My Characters, At Least Most Of Them, Are Much More A Part Of That Superorganism That Is The Story Than Separate And Independent Creatures.

Generally, All My Life, I Have Had Strong Friction With Life - I Was A Problematic Soldier, I Was Kicked Out Of The Army, I Was In Fights. There Was Something About Writing That Was A Way Of Experimenting With This Emotion.