More quotes by Franz Kafka

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"Kill me, or you are a murderer."
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
"I am a cage, in search of a bird."