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Everything in a story should be credible.

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
Novelist
Radio Personality
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Noblesville
Indiana
Credible
Story
Stories
Everything

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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
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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.
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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I understand the technique of eccentricity it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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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.
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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.
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
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