Chestertons verker har også influert en lang rekke andre forfattere, som C. S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, J. R. R. Tolkien, Karel Čapek, Paul Claudel, Étienne Gilson, Pierre Klossowski, George Orwell, Jean Paulhan, Agatha Christie, Sigrid Undset, Anthony Burgess, Orson Welles, Dorothy Day, Gene Wolfe, Tim Powers, Martin Gardner, Neil Gaiman, Marc-Edouard Nabe, Simon Leys, etc.