Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.
Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.
Everybody comes from somewhere.
All of my novels are democracies.
Never cut loose from your longings.
I recommend the art of slow reading.
Literature is about telling stories.
Don't write about that which you don't know.
Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.
'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
Every language has influences and is an influence.
Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
Things can be translated, but they become different.
I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.
If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
Different musical instruments provide for different music.
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.
Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That's good enough for me.
In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen.
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.
I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.
We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.
You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
