As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

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