Dystopian Author Quotes

Franz Kafka I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading.

Yevgeny Zamyatin The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional – and not some other kind of […]

Yevgeny Zamyatin The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man’s creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a […]

Yevgeny Zamyatin The purpose of art … is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

Yevgeny Zamyatin The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

Yevgeny Zamyatin Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken – errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is […]