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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.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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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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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 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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