194 Quotes by Etgar Keret

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

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.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

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.

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

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.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.