The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.