"The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write."

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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

— Arthur Conan Doyle