I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the...

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in...

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him...

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a...

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a...

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture,...

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture,...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire...

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire...

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million...

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million...

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.