“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” — Franz Kafka 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
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel 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
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“But this is something that you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought… — Cynthia Ozick 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
“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
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Old Prague was a story-book city caked in grime: ancient, soot-blackened. History lived in every detail: in the deerstalker rooftops and the… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“Modern society is incredibly complex, complex even beyond human comprehension, if we grant its premises—property, "production for the sake of production," competition,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
“Svako živi iza rešetaka koje nosi sa sobom. Zato se sada tako mnogo piše o životinjama. To je izraz čežnje za slobodnim,… — Gustav Janouch Copy Share Image
“You sit at the edge of the world, I am in a crater that's no more. Words without letters Standing in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
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