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

More Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

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

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.