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Profession: Writer
Nationality: Israeli
Birthday: May 4, 1939

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I don't very often read novels.

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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

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Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

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It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

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Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

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There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

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This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

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I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

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