Phrase by 'A. B. Yehoshua'

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

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Writing , Beginning , Process , Difficult


We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  You , Man , Random , Sitting


The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  People , Identity , Great , Inside


One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Dreams , Stupid , Bridge , Conflict


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.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  You , Revenge , Suicide , Blood


Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Gold , Understand , Literature , Explore


So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Moment , Truth , Past , Judge


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.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Friends , Politics , Father , Poetry


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

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Why , I Am , Hatred , Because


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.

Author: A. B. Yehoshua - Israeli Novelist
  Family , Live , Problems , Fierce


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