People in Israel would

People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn’t write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. … Read more

There is nothing to

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway