If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece… — Etgar Keret Advice 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
“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 like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really… — Etgar Keret Block 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
“He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be… — Etgar Keret Brilliance 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
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 Ending Copy Share Image
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and… — Etgar Keret Championship Copy Share Image
He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing… — Etgar Keret Air Copy Share Image
“When you're having an asthma attack, you don't have any breath. When you don't have any breath, it's hard to speak. You're… — Etgar Keret Asthma Copy Share Image
“I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually… — Etgar Keret Cried 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 America Copy Share Image
What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words… — Etgar Keret Biblical Copy Share Image
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where… — Etgar Keret Bad government Copy Share Image
“When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't… — Etgar Keret Lizards Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me… — Etgar Keret Alive Copy Share Image
My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in… — Etgar Keret Achievement 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… — Etgar Keret Common Copy Share Image
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines:… — Etgar Keret Army Copy Share Image
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one… — Etgar Keret Doe 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 Actually living 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… — Etgar Keret Circumstances Copy Share Image
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that… — Etgar Keret Communicate 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
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay.… — Etgar Keret Life 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… — Etgar Keret Believe Copy Share Image
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what… — Etgar Keret Enough Copy Share Image
“...but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not… — Etgar Keret Better life Copy Share Image
The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go… — Etgar Keret Active Copy Share Image
