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
(Related: Decisions, Man)
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Statistics)
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Key)
"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
(Related: Effort, Murder, Will)
"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
(Related: Home, Books, Chess, Mail, Television, Will)
"I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best."
- Rex Stout
"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
(Related: Decisions, Woman)
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Joy)
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Sense)
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Women, Idea, Adolescence)
"Everything in a story should be credible."
- Rex Stout
"Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene."
- Rex Stout
"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
(Related: Thought, Character)
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Effort)
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Being)
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
- Rex Stout
(Related: Love, Writer)