Quote by Ian Ker

“G. K. Chesterton’s observation: “The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

— Carl E. Olson

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him. Tolkien’s words…

— Neil Gaiman

“The only philosophical problem with accepting the existence of Wonderland is that it means that our reality could actually be a figment of our…

— Cameron Jace

“For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.”

— C. S. Lewis

“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or within, or…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make…

— G.K. Chesterton

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Mostly, though, he made people laugh, with wicked impersonations of everyone around him: clients, lawyers, clerks, even the cleaning woman. When Pickwick Papers came…

— Simon Callow

“t this point I would like to return to the question of the plot movement and the different narrative levels of the book. David…

— Ian Gregor

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but…

— Harriet Blaine

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

— John Gray