The Gift Of Literature Is That, In

Actually, Who Hasn't Been Through The Ghastly Experience Of Sitting In Front Of A Blank Page, With Its Toothless Mouth Grinning At You: Go Ahead, Let's See You Lay A Finger On Me? A Blank Page Is Actually A Whitewashed Wall With No Door And No Window. Beginning To Tell A Story Is Like Making A Pass At A Total Stranger In A Restaurant.

I Never Regard My Characters, My Protagonists, As Personifications. It's Not That I Sit By My Desk And I Pick Up A Character Who Will Be The Spokesperson Of The Israeli Left, Another One Will Be The Spokesperson Of The Right, Another One Will Be The Spokesperson Of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, Religions Jews And So On.

She Had Not Wanted Him To But Had Let Him Have His Way Because Ever Since She Was A Child She Had Generally Yielded Before Anyone With Strong Willpower, Especially If It Was A Man, Not Because She Was Naturally Submissive, But Because Strong Male Willpower Gave Her A Feeling Of Safety And Trust, Together With Acceptance And A Desire To Give In.

I Think There Are One Or Two Things Similar In Elizabethan English And Contemporary Hebrew. This Is Not To Say That Every One Of Us Israeli Writers Is A William Shakespeare, But There Is A Certain Similarity To Elizabethan English.

Everybody Comes From Somewhere.