Christopher Fowler Professions : Writer Born : March 26, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by Christopher Fowler For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape. Christopher Fowler escape me always imagination I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child. Christopher Fowler did never who child 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. Christopher Fowler fresh say need personality The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. Christopher Fowler queen never always crime Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter. Christopher Fowler never police past ideas Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors