Rex Stout on Writing
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Rex Stout, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Rex Stout, entry #87329: "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."
Attributed to Rex Stout, entry #58208: "It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene."
6 Quotes by Rex Stout on Writing
"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."
"It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene."
"There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money."
"Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones."
"I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!"
"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."