I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that w... - Franz Kafka
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back."
"Writer speaks a stench."
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
"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."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."