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Stories Quotes by Etgar Keret
- 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…
- I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from…
- It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes.…
- Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
- I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find…
- My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
- When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
- Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind…
- I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will…
- I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on…
- I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than…
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