In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. — 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
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. — 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 don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really… — 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
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
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of… — 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
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — 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 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
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
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 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
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different… — 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
“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
