Communication Quote by Eugenio Montale

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

— Brandt Legg

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

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

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

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

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

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

“Writing is a lonely process, but should not be done alone.”

— M.E. Jakobsen

“As a journalist, he always felt a sense of commitment not only to the piece he had written, but to the individual, event, or…

— Bandi

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we write, we…

— Ahdaf Soueif