Aharon Appelfeld Quotes

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.