Etgar Keret Quotes

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I've always written down how I feel.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My songs are just little letters to me.

For me, writing is just processing.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.