Book Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

— Pearl Zhu

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has…

— Terry Pratchett

“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal…

— Pierre Bayard

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.

— William Poundstone

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.”

— Millicent Ashby

“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

— Edmund Wilson

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

— Mason Cooley