Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Ozis an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 May 1939
CountryIsrael
dream imperfect
Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.
curiosity realization apologizing
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.
dream fulfillment testimony
Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.
novel
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
latin language foreign-language
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.
latin greek language
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.
compromise
In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
eye literature
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
compromise idealist believer
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
language influence
Every language has influences and is an influence.
individual
In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.
literature language
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
literature language
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
reading lucky literature
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.