I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day. — Etgar Keret Every day Copy Share Image
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good. — Etgar Keret Ninja 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
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. — Etgar Keret Facts Copy Share Image
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Coke 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
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
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays… — Etgar Keret Girl Copy Share Image
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — Etgar Keret Make sense 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 Agents Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Army 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 Aa meeting Copy Share Image
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret Art Copy Share Image
“Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls too easily grow up to be punks who steal from candy stores, because they're used to… — Etgar Keret Bart simpson Copy Share Image
“To vanquish the emptiness, I have strategems. I listen to music for countless hours. The music fills not only me, but the… — Etgar Keret Music Copy Share Image
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces… — Etgar Keret Boredom Copy Share Image
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the… — Etgar Keret Goes on Copy Share Image
“Say,' Uzi pressed on, 'is it true that when you people go out on a job they promise you seventy nymphomaniac virgins… — Etgar Keret Sure thing Copy Share Image
“He actually had a relationship once with someone who’d committed suicide. Not emotional, physical. It happened in the army. He was serving… — Etgar Keret Military police 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 Another year Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Boards 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 Commit Copy Share Image
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck… — Etgar Keret Born Copy Share Image
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going… — Etgar Keret Assyrians Copy Share Image
“Dad said I had no respect for money and that if I didn't learn when I was little when was I going… — Etgar Keret Bart simpson Copy Share Image
You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people. — Etgar Keret People Copy Share Image
For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss. — Etgar Keret Kissing 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 Firsts 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
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