6 Franz Kafka Quotes on Writing

Franz Kafka quotes on writing

78. Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

98. May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

111. There will be no proof that I ever was a writer

119. Writing is a form of prayer.

120. Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

124. The only way Kafka could envisage of creating his in every respect impossible writing possible was to demarcate the area of impossibility by making a language without a particular color, without a local tone, without qualities, as it were.