Rex Stout Quotes

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  To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

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  Tags in Read, Daring

• Everything in a story should be credible.

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  Tags in Everything, Story, Credibility

• Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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  Tags in Story, Scene, Marvelous

• I have a strong moral sense – by my standards.

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  Tags in Strong, Sense, Moral

• Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Wonderful, Thousand

• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

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  Tags in Women, Idea, Shallow

• As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

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  Tags in Game, Writer

• I still can’t decide which is more fun – reading or writing.

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  Tags in Fun, Writing

• I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

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  Tags in Myself, Busy

• A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Born

• If I’m home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

  Rex Stout

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  Tags in Without, Come

• The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

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  Tags in Women, Come

• One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don’t, the story is spoiled.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Believe

• There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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  Tags in Kind, Two, Look

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

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  Tags in Better, Anything, Ever

• To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man’s decisions are based on his rational process. That I don’t believe at all.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Believe, Different

• I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stories

Rex Stout (17)

Birth:	1st December, 1886
Death:	27th October, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975.

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