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
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret 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
“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
“A quick look at the map of Europe suggests that Kafka either had a profound ignorance of geography or a profound grasp… — James Hawes 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
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
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this… — Stephen Fry 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
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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
Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies… — Mark Steyn 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
“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
“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka… — Hermann Hesse 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
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera 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 think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“si intentas pensar por ti mismo, te quedas solo. ========== Kafka en la Orilla (Haruki Murakami)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and… — Raheel Farooq 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
“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
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafka's… — Reiner Stach 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
“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
“Kafka said, A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside us, which sounds great, but what good is an… — Matt Rasmussen 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
