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Quote by Franz Kafka
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of ones

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

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. – Franz Kafka

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka

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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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The author, as a rule, dearly loves every line of his work, from the first stroke down to the dotlet on the i, and certainly has a right to it. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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