Arthur Quote by 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

I really respect the world that Arthur Conan Doyle created and the way that that has been able to be reinterpreted over and over…

— Jonny Lee Miller

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

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

— Will Thomas

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he…

— Mark Gatiss

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing…

— Erik Larson

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

— Walter Benjamin

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

— Sei Shonagon