Writer Quotes by Rex Stout

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

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

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

“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”

— Rex Stout

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

— Rex Stout

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

— Rex Stout

“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked”

— Rex Stout

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

— Rex Stout

“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

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

— Rex Stout

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

— Rex Stout

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

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

“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

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

— Rex Stout