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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
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.
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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 get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
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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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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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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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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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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.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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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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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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Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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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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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
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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.
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