a quote I like

‎''I work on a writer like Kafka because he opens for me, or opens me to, moments of analytic intensity. And such moments are, in their lesser way, also a matter of grace, inspiration. Is this a comment about reading, about the intensities of the reading process? Not really. Rather it is a comment about writing, the kind of writing-in-the-tracks one does in criticism.'' 

-- J.M. Coetzee