22 Quotes by Franz Kafka about Writing
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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
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Writer speaks a stench.
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In a way, I was safe writing
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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that it sustains this kind of life? Which does not, of course, mean that my life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, at such times it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write — which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.
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Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus
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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.
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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
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