“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“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
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 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
If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins. — Milan Kundera 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
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
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I… — Alan Lightman 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“It had a strange resemblance to Kafka's novel,The Trial- that dream-like allegory of a man who,having received a mysterious convocation to attend… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone 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
“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
“Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
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