#writers

"The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented."

"I do not love men: I love what devours them."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact."

"Love is written by the soul."

"In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"

"Beauty is a heart with wings."

"I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity."

"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."

"Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly."