Death Quote by Ernst Pawel

“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing”

— Brandt Legg

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

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

— Eugenio Montale

“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

“Writing is a prayer.”

— Franz Kafka

“Writing is prayer.”

— Franz Kafka

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

“Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.”

— Donna Pyle

“I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection,…

— Kirk Wilson

“Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”

— Rabisankar Bal

“Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk…

— Kafka, Franz

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