The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — 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
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When… — 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
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
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]” — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
