"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."

Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amos Oz

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