Nathan Englander quotes:

When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

You cannot learn to curse like an American.

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.