Be careful Quote by Alan Lightman

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not…

— Haruki Murakami

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

I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a…

— John Banville

“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s,…

— Rick Gekoski

Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style…

— Reiner Stach

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose…

— Irving Howe

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

— Italo Svevo

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to…

— Paulo Coelho