Character Quote by Mark Gatiss

What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You…

— Steven Moffat

Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people.…

— Steven Moffat

“Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female…

— Sophia McDougall

“Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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 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

“Sherlock Holmes is a literary figment. He lives in Neverland, so he always gets to be right. But if he tried to ply his…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I don't want to come over all po-faced, because ultimately Sherlock is just entertainment, but if I can, I want to try to set…

— Louise Brealey

Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

— Kam Williams

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

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

— Anthony Horowitz