More quotes by Franz Kafka

"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"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."
"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]"
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."