Steve Coogan Quotes

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.