Etgar Keret Quotes

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

Etgar Keret

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SoulFightMindWritingReadingYou

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

Jeremy Lin

LifePathMeGrowing UpSociety

Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together.

John Legend

ArtTogetherManPeopleMeFree

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

Angus Young

SchoolPeopleSayBandPeople Say

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

Jeff Bridges

LifeTimeOpportunitiesTakeLeft

My first book was the book that changed my life.

Stephen Ambrose

LifeBookMy LifeFirstChanged

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

Martina Navratilova

GenderKnowTennisCoachBall

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in New York.

Mike Colter

New YorkEnergyYouNewStreetBeen

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WeaknessCrueltySprings

By being politically correct, you're closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?

Lisa Lampanelli

MindViewYouPoint Of ViewClosing

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

FunnyLoveFunThinkKidsI Think

Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

Shereen El Feki

GoodPeopleTreatProblemTideRisk

I would love to interview Sean Spicer.

Seth Meyers

LoveInterviewWouldSean

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