194 Quotes by Etgar Keret

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story’s going to catch you.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it’s all about the turtles. Tell them it’s a ninja, they’ll freak.

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.

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.

No glue can make a person stick like that.

I never know the endings when I write. It’s a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It’s like seeing a movie a second time.

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.

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.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you’re liberal, then you’re a traitor.