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
men library may
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
guy unexpected helping
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.
fear dodge folly
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
trying nero want
I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)
book home hands
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.
believe effort important
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.
men oddities technique
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
cooking kitchen female
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
women taken tickets
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
women intellectual process
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
women done experts
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
book writing two
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
alarms trouble absurd
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off