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
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
It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am. — Etgar Keret Smarter Copy Share Image
“Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That… — Etgar Keret 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
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 have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has… — Etgar Keret Astronaut 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 Music 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
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. — Etgar Keret Facts 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 Behinds Copy Share Image
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck… — Etgar Keret Born 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
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
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years,… — Etgar Keret Block Copy Share Image
For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss. — Etgar Keret Kissing Copy Share Image
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this… — Etgar Keret All kinds Copy Share Image
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Coke 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
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
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 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
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Asks Copy Share Image
