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
“For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.” — Etgar Keret Communication Copy Share Image
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
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
As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I… — Etgar Keret Believe 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
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 rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is… — Etgar Keret Character 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret Ask me 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
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
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 stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret Compact 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
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
