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“I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.”

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 have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.”

Has Beens Busy Bother Too Busy Being Myself

Author: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 unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.”

Ifs Book Stories Home Hands Television Chess Manage Boards Mail Packages Detectives Chores Unanswered Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“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 suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.”

Ifs Believe Important Stories Effort Murder Hardest Abandon Hardest Thing Disbelief Spoiled

Author:Rex Stout

“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”

Author:Rex Stout

“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 his rational process. That I don't believe at all.”

Men Believe Different Process Decision Animal Don't Believe Rational Reasoning Different Things

Author:Rex Stout

“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”

Seems Trouble Absurd Clock Sensible Alarms Alarm Clocks

Book:Three at Wolfe's Door

Source: Three at Wolfe's Door

“To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”

Joy Daring Detectives Ingenious Stratagem Finesse

Author:Rex Stout

“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 books.”

People Ifs Knows Want Years Stills I Can Book

Author:Rex Stout

“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”

Men Political Dying He Man Civilization Rewards Prestige Bedside Manner

Book:A Coffin for Dimitrios

Source: A Coffin for Dimitrios

“A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?”

Persons Might Rooms Half Millions Promise Instruction Suspicion Spy Polish Fees Pistols Nameless

Book:The mask of Dimitrios

Source: The mask of Dimitrios