When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Retrieved May 22 2009. " He called for a "complete cease-fire in which they don't fire at us in exchange for us easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip. His maternal grandfather had owned a mill in Rovno Poland but moved with the family to Haifa in 1934.

He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in BeerAmos Ozba. Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז‎) (born May 4 1939 birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer novelist and journalist.