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—  Рекс Стаут

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„We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.“

—  Rex Stout, книга The Rubber Band

Источник: The Rubber Band

„[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.“

—  Rex Stout, книга Fer-de-Lance

Источник: Fer-de-Lance

„Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.“

—  Rex Stout, книга The Red Box

Источник: The Red Box

„I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.“

—  Rex Stout, книга Might as Well Be Dead

Источник: Might as Well Be Dead

„Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.“

—  Rex Stout, книга The Doorbell Rang

Источник: The Doorbell Rang

„Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.“

—  Rex Stout, книга The Doorbell Rang

Источник: The Doorbell Rang

„The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.“

—  Rex Stout

„A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.“

—  Rex Stout, книга The League of Frightened Men

Источник: The League of Frightened Men

„A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.“

—  Rex Stout

Life

„There isn't a generation gap between you and me — there's two.“

—  Rex Stout

Rex Stout to photographer Jill Krementz
Publishers Weekly

„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.“

—  Rex Stout

Life

„My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.“

—  Rex Stout

On letters from his readers
The New York Times

„One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.“

—  Rex Stout

Nixon was re-elected in 1972, but Stout survived his August 1974 resignation from the Presidency by more than a year.
The New York Times

„The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.“

—  Rex Stout

Rex Stout, page 246
Invitation to Learning

„There are various ways to call a man a liar. One way is just to scream it at him, which doesn't prove anything. Another is to establish facts by long and patient investigation. Still another way is not to call him a liar at all — let him do it himself.“

—  Rex Stout

On his work on Our Secret Weapon, as quoted in "Mystery Story Writer Turns Detective, Finding Axis Lies; Rex Stout, Creator of Nero Wolfe, Using Our Secret Weapon — Truth" by Trudi McCullough in The Milwaukee Journal (30 September 1942) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420930&id=tO4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,6165010

„The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that 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.“

—  Rex Stout

Life

„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

Rex Stout, page 3

„It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.“

—  Rex Stout

Rex Stout, page 247
Invitation to Learning