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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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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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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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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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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
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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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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 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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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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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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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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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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