The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share
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… — Rex Stout Copy Share
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… — Rex Stout Copy Share
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense.… — Rex Stout Copy Share
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the… — Rex Stout Copy Share
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share
![“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [ Life magazine, December 10, 1965]” quote by Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/711/rex-stout-2846_books_a-person-who-does-not-read-cannot-think_1843199.jpg)
