Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Coke 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
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. — Etgar Keret Facts 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
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
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
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life… — Etgar Keret Ambivalent 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 Alienation 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 Book Copy Share Image
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies… — Etgar Keret Arms Copy Share Image
“Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty… — Etgar Keret Atheism 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 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
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
To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have… — Etgar Keret Body Copy Share Image
“Udi was just fooling around. He didn't really mean to hurt the angel, just to make him fly a little, for laughs.… — Etgar Keret Fooling around 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 Brother 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… — Etgar Keret Amsterdam 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… — Etgar Keret Humanity 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 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 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
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Art 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 Ifs 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 Feels 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
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 Every day Copy Share Image
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret Ask me 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
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak. — Etgar Keret Freak Copy Share Image
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret Compact Copy Share Image
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. — Etgar Keret Asks Copy Share Image
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret Complaining Copy Share Image
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
