If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. — Jonathan Alter 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
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush 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
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
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 thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great… — John Banville 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
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of… — Padgett Powell 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
“All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have… — Herman Hesse 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
“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
I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and… — Peter Capaldi 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
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“To je zabluda. Knjiga ne može da zameni svet. To je nemogućno. U životu sve ima svoj smisao i svoj zadatak koji… — Gustav Janouch Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line.… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I've only read one other book of his, Danube, from which, among his many impeccable sentences, one wrapped its octopus arms around… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
![“I knew Richard E. Grant, and I went to him and said "Would you like to [play Kafka in the film]?" and he said yeah, and then suddenly I had all these people who were happy to come along. We got a little bit of money from Scottish Screen to pay for it. I got so many favors because I knew people in…” quote by Peter Capaldi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/peter-capaldi-2535_bits_i-knew-richard-e-grant-and-i-went-to-him_238430.png)
