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

— Brittany Cavallaro

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

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

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they…

— Marie Curie

“The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.”

— Ernest Hemingway

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of…

— Raul Garcia

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

“Since he had, in contrast to his delivery, a big burly squared-off bulk of a body which gave hint of the methodical ruthlessness of…

— Norman Mailer

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

“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when…

— Daniel Keyes

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke