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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. — Etgar Keret

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret

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

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy. — Etgar Keret

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience. — Etgar Keret

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

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

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. — Etgar Keret

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. — Etgar Keret

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. — Etgar Keret

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret

He tells them that there is a line that separates killing bugs from killing frogs, and that no matter how hard it is, that line must never be crossed — Etgar Keret

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret

My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears. — Etgar Keret

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

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret

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

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

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret

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

Don't you go and dump reality on us like a garbage truck. — Etgar Keret

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so. — Etgar Keret

You can remember without seeing it. — Etgar Keret

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

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic. — Etgar Keret

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible. — Etgar Keret

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory. — Etgar Keret

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am. — Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time. — Etgar Keret

A word is a lot. — Etgar Keret

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. — Etgar Keret

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. — Etgar Keret

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out. — Etgar Keret

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret

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

An awfully beautiful story, but it isn't mine. — Etgar Keret

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

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

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret

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

Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it's a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose step is like a quarter of a human's. — Etgar Keret

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

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. — Etgar Keret

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good. — Etgar Keret

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

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it. — Etgar Keret

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

For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing. — Etgar Keret

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

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people. — Etgar Keret

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. — Etgar Keret

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear. — Etgar Keret

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure. — Etgar Keret

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

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret