I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.
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.
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.