Aharon Appelfeld

“The Holocaust is a dark secret, a secret that we will have to live with for a long time. I don't think it's an accident that we are now living in a time of great denial.”

“For me, the Holocaust is not a historical event. It is a human event.”

“Memory is a prime ingredient of every living creature.”

“I don't write about the Holocaust. I write about the human being, the human being's struggle.”

“A man has to be very lonely to write. I've been a lonely man all my life.”

“Every writer has his own language, his own landscape, and his own childhood.”

“Silence is a sort of prayer. It is a way of talking to God.”

“I write in Hebrew. It's the language of my faith, my people, and my prayers. It's the language of my soul.”