Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret
Etgar Keretis an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 August 1967
CountryIsrael
schemes scales okay
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.
suicide good-life taken
I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.
kings hip-hop half
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.
independent character return
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
safe-haven ideas brochures
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
wall sleep two
There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.
dream writing thinking
When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want to find out what is going on-I'm writing for myself as a reader. It's like when you dream a dream. I want to know what's behind the door. If I navigate, it's from a place that's totally intuitive.
army thinking people
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
jail speak ask-me
Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.
wife together process
Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.
collaboration artistic sometimes
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
frozen hebrew peas
Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
ninja ifs translators
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
turtles rabbits ninja
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.