Children Quote by Dennis Cooper

“Many of the most popular children's stories have their roots in tales invented for particular children, and this casual, often serendipitous, approach produces a…

— Alan Lee

“And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with…

— John C. Wright

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J. R. R. Tolkien”

— David Baldacci

“Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.”

— Leslie Simon

“…those that like this kind of thing at all, like it very much, and cannot get anything like enough of it, or at sufficiently…

— Muz Murray

“No ideologues, not even religious ones, are going to be happy with Tolkien, unless they manage it by misreading him. For like all great…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

“On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.”

— Alister E. McGrath

“There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done…

— Anthony Lane

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the…

— Christopher Tolkien

“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The success of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings helped restore the reputation of these discredited genres, thus…

— Louis A. Markos