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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.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny? My mother would say, Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it.
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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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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 don't like the expression writer's block because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
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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.
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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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Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
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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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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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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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I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
Etgar Keret
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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Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
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For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.
Etgar Keret
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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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Etgar Keret
Etgar means challenge. And my family name is Keret, which means urban. So my name is urban challenge. My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
Etgar Keret
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
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