Etgar Keret Quotes

Etgar Keret — Israeli Writer born on August 20, 1967,

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television... (wikipedia)

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

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.

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

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.

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

Etgar Keret Quotes

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