Franz Kafka Quotes, Writing Quotes, Sleep Quotes

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

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If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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