Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the cas... - Franz Kafka

"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."

"Writing is prayer."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."