Character Quote by Thomas Keneally

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened,…

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Pearl Zhu

“There will always be a temptation to tell a neat story that makes everything sensible and logical and that suggests why the deserving succeeded…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

“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

“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.”

— Vivian Vande Velde

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world…

— Martha N. Beck