All Rex Stout Quotes
- Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. Casts
- Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… All
- You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it… Art
- No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows… Gracefully
- A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. Born
- As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. Along
- Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. Every Sherlock
- Everything in a story should be credible. Credible
- Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. Adolescence
- I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. Among
- I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. Inspirational
- I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. Decide
- I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself. Been
- 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 unanswered… Board
- One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to… Abandon
- The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote Anything Hemingway
- To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… All
- The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off Absurd
- To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. Daring
- The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my… Book