My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Fiction Copy Share Image
“My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.” — Etgar Keret Marriage Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Language Copy Share Image
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — 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 Affair Copy Share Image
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — 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
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay.… — Etgar Keret Life Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in… — Etgar Keret Achievement Copy Share Image
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's… — Etgar Keret Birth Copy Share Image
“He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be… — Etgar Keret Brilliance Copy Share Image
“Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn’t your best friend, you’d have… — Etgar Keret Bar mitzvah Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something… — Etgar Keret Books Copy Share Image
“Three a.m. is prime time for the soul. Programming should start any minute, and it's hard to tell what'll be on this… — Etgar Keret Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time… — Etgar Keret Flights Copy Share Image
“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… — 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 Communication Copy Share Image
And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Aging 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… — Etgar Keret Aging 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
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret Hebrew Copy Share Image
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story… — Etgar Keret Character Copy Share Image
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.” — Etgar Keret Communication Copy Share Image
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — 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 wish I understood why you buy all this stuff." "For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass… — Etgar Keret Buying 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 Art Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Books Copy Share Image
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret Israel Copy Share Image
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. — Etgar Keret Education Copy Share Image
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure. — Etgar Keret Brochures Copy Share Image
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