Etgar Keret Quotes

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Etgar Keret

• Writing
• Lonely
• Fiction
• Pastime

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• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

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• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

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• I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

  

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• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  

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• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

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• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  

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• I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

  

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• My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Lonely
  • Fiction