Etgar Keret Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Character, Destiny

• Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Character, Plot

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

• When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

  Etgar Keret

  Book, Character, Unique

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

• 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 rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

  Etgar Keret

  Character, Independent, Stories

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

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