Rex Stout Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Rex Stout

  Character, Two, Fiction

  "Talk with Rex Stout "by Lewis Nichols, The New York Times, November 15, 1953..

• A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.

  Rex Stout

  Real, Character, Bakers

  "The New Invitation to Learning: The Essence of the Great Books of All Times". Book by Mark Van Doren, 1942.

• 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

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