Book Quote by Matthew Specktor

“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

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

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

— Eugenio Montale

“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”

— David Mikics

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the…

— Herman Hesse

“Kafka’s short story ‘Judgement’.”

— Rabisankar Bal

“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

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

— Mason Cooley

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

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

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