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.

Etgar Keret

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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.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• 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.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• I chase after inspiring stories.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Stories
  • Inspiring
  • Chase

• 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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stories

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • Way
  • Stories

• 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.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Why
  • Control
  • Human

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Small
  • Needs
  • Small Things

• Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Stories
  • Two
  • Would Be

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Speak
  • Stories

• In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Political
  • Words
  • Needs

• They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Light
  • Universe
  • Stars

• Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Like
  • Treat

• HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Song

• Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Words
  • Language
  • Communicate

• 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.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Needs
  • Stories
  • Written