Art Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study in scarlet,…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR’S”

— Rex Stout

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story about the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner,…

— Peter Straub

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It…

— Anne Stevenson

“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities (sure enough,…

— Clark Blaise

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved…

— John Milton