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Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret
Israeli Writer
Born: Aug 20, 1967
Feel Life Me People Writing You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
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 the time to write it. Etgar Keret
Time Needs Think Find Write Written Head Always Least Story
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing. Etgar Keret
You People Writing Lonely Important Group Meeting Extremely See Classes Some About Something More Write Support Learn Sort Course Because Very Than Which Skills Who Actual
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew? Etgar Keret
Writer Feel Obsessed Most Identity Because Does Always Issue Friends American Closer Mean Them Jew Jewish
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 Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough. Etgar Keret
Good Made Enough Say Solution Something Could Write Wrong Feel Learned How Kurt May Stories Used Right
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. Etgar Keret
You Army Writing Space Way Recovering Feel Territory Private Violated
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life. Etgar Keret
Life You Army Experience People Think Carry All Your Life Cross Someone Through Take Invisible Naive Houses Lines Get Shoot Anything Break Aged Shot Your
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 separate and independent creatures. Etgar Keret
Independent Characters Rarely More Part Most Return Least Than Story Them Much Separate Creatures
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world. Etgar Keret
World Thought Before Films Way Characters Give Physically Make Were Story Much Started
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 a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants. Etgar Keret
Me Giving Guided Astronaut Admit About Insists Students Tours Feel New Like Make Talking Times Just Stories Landed Planet Inhabitants Who
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. Etgar Keret
Myself Me Writing Emotions Touch Write Puts Dialogue Reason
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. Etgar Keret
Way Say Complex Simplest Most Very Want Stories Them Compact Things
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place. Etgar Keret
You Writing Lose Control Liberating No Idea Something Write Share Idea Know Readers Doing Very Irresponsible Where Want Story Place Whole
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 of jump. Etgar Keret
You Writing Somewhere Kind Like Surfing Opposed Jump Get Where Story Use Novel
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. Etgar Keret
You Language See Prophets Write Writer Writers Israel Cultural Dictated Role Which Themselves
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying. Etgar Keret
Saying Me You People Communicate Speak Sometimes Political Few Something Only Feel Around Limited Israel Reduction Dogs Discourse Hear Very Few People Pitch
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. Etgar Keret
Writing Language Thought Neighbourhood Would Only Outside Nobody Get Stories Them Started
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun. Etgar Keret
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