Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never… — 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
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — 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
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is… — 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
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
