More quotes by Franz Kafka

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."