Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stoutwas an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1886
CountryUnited States of America
art gay dancing
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
lying men ifs-and
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
character born flats
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.
ideas depth shallow
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
thinking two stories
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
fun reading writing
I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
busy being-myself bother
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
luck merit
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
world coincidence expected
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
summer sweet men
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.
drinking book sleep
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men
luck picks occasions
I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
genius sparks tire
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
tongue body submit
What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.