Alive Quote by Jonathan Alter Download Open image “If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.” — Jonathan Alter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Customer service Customers Franz Kafka Ifs Live for today Service Today Writing
“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 could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't. — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image