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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.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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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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All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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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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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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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 how to renounce it gracefully.
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
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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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Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
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