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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Stories for Children - 1984

Family, Parents, Author

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The New York Times - 3 December 1978

Politics, Author

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

The New York Times - 30 June 1985

Politics, Religion, Author

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants. Nevertheless, it is also true that the serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation. He cannot but see that the power of religion, especially belief in revelation, is weaker today than it was in any other epoch in human history. More and more children grow up without faith in God, without belief in reward and punishment, in the immortality of the soul and even in the validity of ethics. The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Nobel lecture - 1978

Politics, Author

Take three quarts of duck's milk...

First words of a "recipe for high-priced cookies" - Stories for Children - 1984

Politics, Author

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

TIME - 18 July 1983

Family, Ethics, Author

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

The New York Times - 3 December 1978

Politics, Religion, Author

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

Nobel lecture quoted in The Observer - 17 December 1978. Variant: "They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff."

Family, Politics, Author

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

The New York Times - 26 November 1978

Politics, Religion, Author

I started to "write" even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.

"A Day of Pleasure" - 1996

Politics, Author

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