Army Quote by Etgar Keret

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

— Brandt Legg

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

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,…

— Manuel Puig

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

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It…

— Reiner Stach

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

— Jessie Ware

“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's story of…

— Jonathan Franzen

“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'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

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew…

— Nicole Krauss

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not…

— Justin Cartwright