Etgar Keret Quotes

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Etgar Keret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: August 20, 1967

Topics

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The Kardashians are walking clickbait - but let's look closer. Do Kim and Kanye affect how society feels about interracial relationships and blended families?

Jessica Williams

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If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

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You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

Andy Grammer

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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Every Bond girl has a certain charm, and sometimes - almost every time - that charm is more important than beauty. In the films and in life.

Stephanie Sigman

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Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

Russ Carnahan

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And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.

Mitchell Reiss

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God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

Jay Parini

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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

Jon Scieszka

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It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

Debbie Ford

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I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.

Christine Tsai

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