Franz Kafka Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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Writing is an adventure.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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