The Edogawa Rampo Reader Quotes

“From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.”
― Rampo Edogawa, The Edogawa Rampo Reader

“Only two or three months ago, one of the Tokyo newspapers (I can’t remember which) admirably reported that a two hundred inch astronomical telescope in America was halfway toward completion. I should like to praise the editor of that newspaper. Articles about war, foreign affairs, and the stock market are not the only things that should be considered newsworthy. A two hundred inch lens can magnify our view of the cosmos considerably. The scope of human vision will expand tremendously. It will become possible to see what was once impossible to behold. It will be a momentous occasion, as though the whole human race, once blind, is granted the gift of sight. Its importance is unrivalled by any war.”
― Rampo Edogawa, The Edogawa Rampo Reader

“With one or two possible exceptions, there isn’t a fiction writer out there who is fit to become the king of an actual (earthbound) castle. It is
precisely because they are better suited to rule castles in the air that they pursue this path.”
― Edogawa Rampo, The Edogawa Rampo Reader

“I am terrified of moving pictures. They are the dreams of an opium addict. From a single inch of film emerge giants who fill the whole theater.
They laugh, they cry, they get angry, and they fall in love. Swift’s vision of a land of giants exquisitely unfolds before our eyes.”
― Edogawa Rampo, The Edogawa Rampo Reader