194 Quotes by Etgar Keret

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.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.