Etgar Keret Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Writing, Giving

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

• I think tone gives birth to the story.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Giving, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

• If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.

  Etgar Keret

  Giving, Advice, Sound

• 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

  Character, Giving, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2011.

• I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

  Etgar Keret

  Talking, Giving, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2011.

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