Rex Stout Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

  Rex Stout

  Writing, Mind, Shadow

• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

  Rex Stout

  Book, Writing, Two

• 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.

  Rex Stout

  Writing, Character, Born

• I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

  Rex Stout

  Fun, Reading, Writing

• 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

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout". Book by John McAleer, p.3, 1983.

• 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

  Book, Writing, Kitchen

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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