I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time.… — Charlie Trotter 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
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith 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
“Corporate alchemy isn’t just dark magic; it’s a tragic comedy, a satire as I imagine being written by Kafka on a bad… — Rove Monteux 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
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
“I have never identified with the "K" in Kafka's works, by the way. Having grown up in a democracy, I have dared… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to… — Franz Kafka 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
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The… — Zadie Smith 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
“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
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
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
“I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Nobody is going to help me. Al least no one has until now. So I have to make it on my own.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image