Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you. — Etgar Keret Fall 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
“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
“Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep… — Etgar Keret Advice Copy Share Image
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of… — Etgar Keret Believe 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 think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind… — Etgar Keret Born 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
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
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive… — Etgar Keret Incentives Copy Share Image
“When you say I love you very much , and your asthma's attack occurs, there is no time for palaver because instead… — Etgar Keret Time 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
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful. — Etgar Keret Becoming 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
“My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.” — Etgar Keret Marriage 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
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Art 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 Communication 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
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
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 Apartment Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot.… — Etgar Keret Love Copy Share Image
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret Complaining 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
