Quotes about Rex Stout

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being...

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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had...

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Everything in a story should be credible.

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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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

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

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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born...

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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to...

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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

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

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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of...

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