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
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. — Etgar Keret Education Copy Share Image
What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. — Etgar Keret Facts 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
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret 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
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
Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — Etgar Keret 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going… — Etgar Keret Assyrians 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 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 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
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound… — Etgar Keret Biblical Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle.… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In… — Etgar Keret Brother 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 Copy Share Image
“I wish I understood why you buy all this stuff." "For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass… — Etgar Keret Buying Copy Share Image
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first. — Etgar Keret 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
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 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 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 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
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 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
“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
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write… — Etgar Keret Character Copy Share Image
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of… — Etgar Keret Army Copy Share Image
“And when they started moving, he looked in the rear-view mirror and gave Eddie a sad wink, which somehow made the whole… — Etgar Keret Humanity 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 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
![“When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's…” quote by Etgar Keret](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/etgar-keret-2656_behinds_when-i-write-i-never-know-the-endings-wh_1886521.png)
