Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Stories Quotes, Causes Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

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