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“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's…

— John Green

“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”

— Will Thomas

“Miss Fields," said a servant, stepping into the room and closing the door, "There is a visitor for you. Are you in?" Clare blinked.…

— Sam Starbuck

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. The line from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland drifted through…

— Diana Gabaldon

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it…

— Mark Gatiss

“You're it. The one. The start. The finish. You are how my story ends.”

— Belle Aurora

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot…

— John Darnielle

“I had no idea that such individuals existed outside of stories. A STUDY IN SCARLET, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE”

— Brittany Cavallaro

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in…

— Patti Smith

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the…

— Rafael Yglesias

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's…

— Rex Stout

I remember when I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I thought Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the greatest writers, because I…

— Stan Lee