Rex Stout was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between December 1, 1886 and October 27, 1975. He/she became 88 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Rex.
17 Famous quotes by Rex Stout
"I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best"
"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"
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote"
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game"
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing"
"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"
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards"
"Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene"
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself"
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for"
"Everything in a story should be credible"
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful"
"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"
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy"
"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"
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up"
"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"
