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
two faces dignity
Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
character two fiction
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
two answers assumption
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
thinking two stories
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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.
book writing two
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
shrewd touches
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
billions inside joined minute particles womb
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.
based believe man rational reasoning
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.
american-writer animals bigger brain men reasoning
All men are reasoning animals more than any other animal. They have a bigger brain and better brain. And we reason with our brain.
equality trying would-be
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
people joy hitting
Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
damn great-writers
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.
women mean men
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.