Peter Weir Quotes

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

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.

I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

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

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

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.

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

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

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.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

There's no police like Holmes.

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