Israeli Author Quotes

David Grossman

Aharon Appelfeld

Through writing I allow myself to experience things I would not be courageous enough for in life.

What is a generalization? Who said that one should not generalize?...To say that one should not generalize is not a generalization?

Orly Castel-Bloom

I am not a member of a community or a synagogue. Really, my devotion to writing is my religion. There are other aspects of my religion, but mainly it is to be with myself, for many hours.

Aharon Appelfeld

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.