More quotes by Franz Kafka

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."