“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” asked “That if Franz Kafka were here his head would explode?” “Actually, yeah.” — David Wong Copy Share Image
“What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself. —Franz Kafka Medicine,” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka ‘Life” — John Marrs Copy Share Image
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — LJS 2 Motivate Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or,… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it,… — Momus Copy Share Image
I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The gray tomcat with the white priest’s collar enjoyed sharpening his claws on Franz Kafka’s Investigations of a Dog, a fable that… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“At one chew per second, the Fletcherizing of a single bite of shallot would take more than ten minutes. Supper conversation presented… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Aomame imagined 1926 Czechoslovakia: The First World War had ended, and the country was freed from the long rule of the Hapsburg… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Let's say it once and for all: Poe and Lovecraft - not to mention a Bruno Schulz or a Franz Kafka -… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“One day, upon awakening from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.” —Franz Kafka, The… — Mawi Asgedom Copy Share Image
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“one of the speakers was an eccentric character who would have as great an influence on Jung as the dark Sabina did.… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
“The golem is for Franz Kafka big headache.." The ache, he confided, grew in Kafka's head, spreading throughout his bones, his joints… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
“Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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