The Oz
The Oz
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:...
israel iran earthquakes
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
writing advice
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
heart people mind
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
family world mysterious
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
writing
Don't write about that which you don't know.
fate unhappy sides
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
live-life exclamation-points living-my-life
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
democracy novel
All of my novels are democracies.
dream
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
writing sacrifice night
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
growing-up book ambition
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.
reading imagine pleasure
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
parent legacy culture
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.
country reality novel
A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.