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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.

~Etgar Keret

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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.

~Etgar Keret

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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

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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.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Characters Creatures Independent Least More Most Much Part Rarely Return Separate Story Than Them

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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

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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

~Etgar Keret

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My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

~Etgar Keret

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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

~Etgar Keret

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When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

~Etgar Keret

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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

~Etgar Keret

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Writer

Born: August 20th, 1967

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