Being ambivalent doesn’t mean that you’re a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. Etgar Keret Read Quote
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. Etgar Keret Read Quote
Before I started to make films, I didn’t give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world. Etgar Keret Read Quote
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people’s houses. It’s naive to think you won’t carry anything into your life. Etgar Keret Read Quote
In the army you feel violated – there’s no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. Etgar Keret Read Quote
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. Etgar Keret Read Quote
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? Etgar Keret Read Quote
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors. Etgar Keret Read Quote
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. Etgar Keret Read Quote
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. Etgar Keret Read Quote
