"the State Of The Jews" Was Not

There Are Certain Concepts, Which Exist In English, And Are Unthinkable, Untranslatable Into Hebrew And Vice Versa. Hebrew Has A System Of Tenses, Which Is, In A Big Way, Different From The English System Of Tenses, Probably Different Than Any European System Of Tenses, Which Means A Different Sense Of Reality, Which Means A Different Concept Of Time. So, Things Can Be Translated, But They Become Different.

Black Box Is Not A Statement About Injustice Committed Against Sephardi Oriental Jews Or About The Extremism Of Religious Jews Or The Lack Of Imagination Of The Old Israeli Elites. It's A Human Story, In My View, First And Foremost About A Mystical Communion Between Enemies. This Is The Inner Story Of The Novel. This Is My Business As A Novelist. It Is Not About Positions And Ideas.

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.

Never Cut Loose From Your Longings.

Literature Exists Inside The Language. It's Made Of Words.