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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

Topics: Always Ambivalent Anything Being Complex Complexity Goes Just Life Mean Means Show You

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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.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Been Common Gets Israeli Little Lost One Of The Things Speech Things Tradition Translation Write Writing I Write

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The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

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Topics: Dialogue Emotions Me Myself Puts Reason Touch Write Writing I Write

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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Bible Effect Half Hebrew Hip-Hop James King Like Lyric Say Sentence Spoken

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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.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Around Communicate Discourse Dogs Feel Few Few People Hear Israel Limited Me Only People Pitch Political Reduction Saying Something Sometimes Speak Very You I Feel

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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Basic Compulsory Felt Fiction First Introduced Kafka Period Training Writing

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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.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Always Find Head Least Needs Story Think Time Write Written I Think

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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

Topics: About Actual Because Classes Course Extremely Group Important Learn Lonely Meeting More People See Skills Some Something Sort Support Than Very Which Who Write Writing You I See

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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

Topics: Arabic Being Consistent Dialogue East Live Middle Middle East Neighbors Published Some Sort Strong Want Wish

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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?

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Always American Because Closer Does Feel Friends Identity Issue Jew Jewish Mean Most Obsessed Them Writer I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Writer

Born: August 20th, 1967

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