Etgar Keret Quotes
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
Quotes to Explore
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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In the locker rooms, I'm always suggesting, "You need Berlei." Because it's the best brand for women and for me.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
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No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
