Book Quote by Brandt Legg Download Open image ““Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing”” — Brandt Legg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka depicts the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Meditation is better than counseling. It keeps me sane in this crazy world.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“jogged through the trees was insanely intricate, and Grandyn believed what the woman had said; that he’d never find it alone. He just hoped… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“with Nelson’s connection to Cope, Chelle might have a better chance of convincing Munna to release the INUs so they could start running the… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Mutsu said, ‘Creativity can’t be coaxed, it is fragile and sometimes comes only when the world is ready; waiting until it is safe for… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.” Runit” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Just because anger or hate is present does not mean that the capacity to love & accept is not there; love is always with you.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Your time is up,” she said, punching buttons in the air. A woman walked into the Pacyfik Head’s office a moment later. “The deputy… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
