Adolescent Quote by John Banville

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'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I…

— Alan Lightman

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

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

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

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 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 is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

“Dostoevsky does not exist for me. Virginia Woolf does not exist for me. Her essays are quite good, but her novels are not of…

— Javier Marias

“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

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To…

— Alan Lightman

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

— Jessie Ware