Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

Robert M. Drake

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Franz Kafka

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

Robert M. Drake

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Franz Kafka

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

Robert M. Drake

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

Robert M. Drake

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

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.

Franz Kafka

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

Robert M. Drake

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Franz Kafka

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Robert M. Drake

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Franz Kafka

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Robert M. Drake

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

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