It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I… — 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
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — Etgar Keret 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 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
Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you. — 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
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
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret 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 Copy Share Image
I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has… — 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
When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write,… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how… — 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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret 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 of the… — 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 it is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."” quote by Etgar Keret](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1be/etgar-keret-2656_goes-on_i-remember-a-point-in-writing-the-story_1222083.jpg)
![“People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very…” quote by Etgar Keret](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77c/etgar-keret-2656_communication_people-in-israel-would-write-in-a-high-r_2068591.jpg)
![“When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's…” quote by Etgar Keret](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c0d/etgar-keret-2656_behinds_when-i-write-i-never-know-the-endings-wh_1886521.jpg)
![“I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.” quote by Etgar Keret](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/936/etgar-keret-2656_birth_i-was-born-at-six-months-and-i-weighed-9_2101097.jpg)
