"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician best known for creating Sherlock Holmes. He was born in Edinburgh on 1859-05-22 and became one of the most influential crime-fiction authors in English literature. He died in Crowborough, England, on 1930-07-07.