More quotes by Franz Kafka

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."