Rex Stout Quotes

• 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

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Read, Daring

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Two, Look

• 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.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Come

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Anything, Ever

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without, Come

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stories

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Busy

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Sense, Moral

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Idea, Shallow

• Everything in a story should be credible.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Story, Credibility

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Story, Scene, Marvelous

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Wonderful, Thousand

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

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Game, Writer

• 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.

  Rex Stout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Born

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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