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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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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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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. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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I think when you write, you should call it a writing spree. I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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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.
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I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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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 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 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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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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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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What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.
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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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