44 Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.