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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
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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.
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For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
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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.
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
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I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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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.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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