Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.”

— Michael Kroft

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.”

— Lewis Carroll

“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.”

— Claire Tomalin

“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The more a man learns, Dickens said, “the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered…

— Les Standiford

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of…

— Amor Towles

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort…

— Amor Towles

“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.”

— Peter Ackroyd