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“Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.”

Quote by Rex Stout

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Rex Stout was an American writer renowned for his detective novels. His works, featuring the character of Nero Wolfe, have won the hearts of many readers. Stout's writing career spanned half a century, and his contributions had a profound impact on the genre of detective fiction. more

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“I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.”

Said Done Women Trouble Female Experts Explaining Reminding

Book:GAMBIT

Source: GAMBIT

“No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.”

Men Mean Women Assuming

Book:The Mother Hunt

Source: The Mother Hunt

“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.”

Writing Kind Two Book Stories Cooks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.”

Dangerous Ignorance Safe

Book:Triple Jeopardy

Source: Triple Jeopardy

“Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.”

Believe May Seems Force Cutting Raises Clubs Wit Sarcasm Brutes Pierce Bruises Brute Force

Author:Rex Stout

“Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.”

Enough Apartment Bedroom Foxes Rivals Detectives Concealed Discussing

Book:Bad for Business

Source: Bad for Business

“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”

Ends Stories Happens Incredibles Things Happen Tricks Holmes

Author:Rex Stout

“Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.”

Firsts Stills Stories Lasts Courses Modern Tricks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.”

Damn Great Writers

Author:Rex Stout

“There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.”

Ifs Kind Two Character Asks Born Fiction Quitting Tall Synthetic

Author:Rex Stout