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Rex Stout

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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.


— Rex Stout


#best #holmes #i #i think #later

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.


— Rex Stout


#anyone #believe #charge #disbelief #effort

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.


— Rex Stout


#better #ever #glass #hemingway #key

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.


— Rex Stout


#billions #come #decisions #entropy #inside

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


— Rex Stout


#detective #finesse #ingenious #joy #rare

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


— Rex Stout


#based #believe #decisions #different #different thing

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


— Rex Stout


#fun #i #more #reading #still

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.


— Rex Stout


#character #contrived #flat #round #she






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Adams for broadcasts on March 28 1939 (with Moss Hart); August 29 1939 (with linguist Wilfred J. He developed an extreme anti-German attitude and in 1943 publiRex Stoutd the essay "We Shall Hate or We Shall Fail"[1][2] and during the later part of the war and the post-war period he also led the Society for the Prevention of World War III which lobbied for a harsh peace for Germany. The President VaniRex Stouts (Paramount)

In an interview printed in Royal Decree (1983) Rex Stout's official biographer John McAleer asked the author if there were any chance of Hollywood ever making a good Nero Wolfe movie.

" The Nero Wolfe stories are narrated by Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin who is presented as having recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). In 1959 Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000 the world's largest mystery convention and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

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