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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.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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 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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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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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 becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
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The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
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