"I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet."
Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. His fiction frequently explored memory, displacement, and Jewish life in Europe and Israel. He was awarded major literary honors in Israel and abroad.