Dominic Sandbrook
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Well, listen, I've been in the business a long time, but that's fine.
But it's always a cat next to a tree, but the tree is smaller than you think it is.
Yeah, the beast of Bodmin.
Is the art for me more than that, Don?
But it is because he'd been so enormously successful with Holmes, hadn't he?
And you can absolutely understand why there comes a point where you think, I have to kill him because I am more than this.
If you're Arthur Conan Doyle, you think, I am not Sherlock Holmes.
I am a real man and I have real talents and I can write real stories.
And Holmes has become bigger than he is.
So you absolutely see why you would kill someone like that.
But then you have a few more years of maturity and mortgage paying, I guess.
And you do think, do you know what?
Maybe it's great that I created someone who's bigger than me.
You know, maybe this is the greatest thing I've ever done and ever will do.
And you bring him back.