Artist Quote by Rex Stout

“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

“The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught…

— David Mitchell

“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

“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

“Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged…

— Lily Koppel

“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is…

— Neil Gaiman

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)”

— Anatole Broyard

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it…

— Jeanette Winterson

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command,…

— Othniel Charles Marsh