Quote#Children
No man encouraged his characters so much as Dickens. "I am an…
Quote byG. K. Chesterton · 1874–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1: "The Dickens Period".
English (original)
No man encouraged his characters so much as Dickens. "I am an affectionate father," he says, "to every child of my fancy." He was not only an affectionate father, he was an overindulgent father. The children of his fancy are spoilt children. They shake the house like heavy and shouting schoolboys; they smash the story to pieces like so much furniture.
— G. K. Chesterton
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