I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines:… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, "You… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. — Etgar Keret Copy Share
“She said I should pick the hall and the date and whatever I want, because it really doesn’t matter to her. That isn’t the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret Copy Share
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
“And suddenly the driver remembered how he'd once promised himself that if he became God in the end, he'd be merciful and kind, and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. — Etgar Keret Copy Share
“I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually picture her… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
“Dice que no la amo de verdad. Que digo que la quiero, que creo que la quiero, pero que no. He oído a más… — Etgar Keret Copy Share
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