Rex Stout citations

Rex Stout, de son nom complet Rex Todhunter Stout, né le 1er décembre 1886 à Noblesville, en Indiana, et mort le 27 octobre 1975 à Danbury, au Connecticut, est un écrivain américain de roman policier, connu surtout grâce aux personnages de Nero Wolfe, détective de fiction gargantuesque que le critique Will Cuppy qualifiera de Falstaff des détectives, et de son assistant, Archie Goodwin, aussi le narrateur des enquêtes.

En 2000, l'ensemble des aventures de Nero Wolfe a reçu le prix de la meilleure série policière lors de la plus grande rencontre internationale consacrée au roman policier, le Bouchercon, les autres candidats nommés étant Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett et Dorothy Sayers. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. décembre 1886 – 27. octobre 1975   •   Autres noms رکس استوت, Ռեքս Ստաուտ, 雷克斯·史陶德
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Rex Stout: Citations en anglais

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

Rex Stout livre The Rubber Band

Source: The Rubber Band

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

Rex Stout livre Might as Well Be Dead

Source: Might as Well Be Dead

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

Rex Stout livre The League of Frightened Men

Source: The League of Frightened Men

“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.”

Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times, "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout"

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

On letters from his readers
The New York Times, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"

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

Rex Stout to photographer Jill Krementz
Publishers Weekly

“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Rex Stout, who published two titles — The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and Please Pass the Guilt — in his 86th year
Publishers Weekly

“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.”

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

“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.”

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, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"

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