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What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.

— Joshua Cohen

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

— Amos Oz

After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.

— Tzipi Livni

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

— John Burnside

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

— Diane Setterfield

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

— Maeve Binchy

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

✗Opposing Perspectives

I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.

— Molly Antopol

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

— Kate DiCamillo

I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.

— Sayed Kashua