Rex Stout Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.”

“Everything in a story should be credible.”

“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”