I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret Birth 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 Language Copy Share Image
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them… — Etgar Keret Being a parent 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
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Asks Copy Share Image
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret Hebrew Copy Share Image
If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. — Etgar Keret Brother 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
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
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
“To vanquish the emptiness, I have strategems. I listen to music for countless hours. The music fills not only me, but the… — Etgar Keret Emptiness Copy Share Image
The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so… — Etgar Keret Accurate Copy Share Image
For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a… — Etgar Keret Challenges 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… — Etgar Keret Beautiful 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 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
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 Communication 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… — Etgar Keret Aging 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
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Aging Copy Share Image
“Three a.m. is prime time for the soul. Programming should start any minute, and it's hard to tell what'll be on this… — Etgar Keret Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time… — Etgar Keret Flights Copy Share Image
It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am. — Etgar Keret Smarter 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 Needs 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
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide. — Etgar Keret Fear 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 Accounts Copy Share Image
I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of… — Etgar Keret Anxiety Copy Share Image
My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they… — Etgar Keret Belts 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 Girlfriend 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
“Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it’s a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose… — Etgar Keret Long way Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next… — Etgar Keret Bed 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… — Etgar Keret Arabic Copy Share Image
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he… — Etgar Keret Angel 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 Apartment Copy Share Image
“I always used to think that heaven is a place for people who've spent their whole life being good, but it isn't.… — Etgar Keret Afterlife Copy Share Image
When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your… — Etgar Keret Books Copy Share Image
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