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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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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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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
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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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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.
Etgar Keret
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 write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
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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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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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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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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.
Etgar Keret
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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I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
Etgar Keret
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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There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.
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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
Etgar Keret
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
Etgar Keret
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Etgar Keret
I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
Etgar Keret
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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