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Top 17 Rex Stout Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 17, 2020

“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”

― Rex Stout

“As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.”

― Rex Stout

“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

“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

“Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.”

― Rex Stout

“Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.”

― Rex Stout

“Everything in a story should be credible.”

― Rex Stout

“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”

― Rex Stout

“I have a strong moral sense – by my standards.”

― Rex Stout

“I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.”

― Rex Stout

“I still can’t decide which is more fun – reading or writing.”

― Rex Stout

“I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.”

― Rex Stout

“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

“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.”

― 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

“To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”

― Rex Stout

“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

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