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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
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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.
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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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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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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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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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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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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.
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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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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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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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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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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
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There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
Etgar Keret
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
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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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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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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 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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