The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King After Copy Share Image
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on… — Laurie R. King Bedroom Copy Share Image
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser… — Laurie R. King Animal Copy Share Image
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because… — Laurie R. King Discounts Copy Share Image
“Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill… — Laurie R. King Awareness Copy Share Image
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the… — Laurie R. King Entity Copy Share Image
“Who am I?’ you mean.” He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. “Do… — Laurie R. King Communication Copy Share Image
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire;… — Laurie R. King Accepting Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly,… — Laurie R. King Faith Copy Share Image
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call… — Laurie R. King Bats Copy Share Image
“I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she… — Laurie R. King Feminism Copy Share Image
“THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of… — Laurie R. King Black death Copy Share Image
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the… — Laurie R. King Book Copy Share Image
“Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a… — Laurie R. King Empathetic Copy Share Image
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have… — Laurie R. King Arthur Copy Share Image
“I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray… — Laurie R. King Broom Copy Share Image
“-in New York, a cat could look at a king. Hell, a cat could get himself elected king. But in England, where… — Laurie R. King England Copy Share Image
“For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired. — Laurie R. King Around Copy Share Image
What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is… — Laurie R. King Contrast Copy Share Image
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields… — Laurie R. King Achieve Copy Share Image
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of… — Laurie R. King Circumstances Copy Share Image
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its… — Laurie R. King Daily life Copy Share Image
. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make… — Laurie R. King Anxious Copy Share Image
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and… — Laurie R. King Boxes Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Academic Copy Share Image
“I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the… — Laurie R. King Humor Copy Share Image
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself,… — Laurie R. King Accepting Copy Share Image
