Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss o... - 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."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"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."

"Books are a narcotic."

"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."