Frases de Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout fue un escritor estadounidense, principalmente reconocido por ser el creador del famoso detective ficticio Nero Wolfe, descrito por el crítico Will Cuppy como "el Falstaff de los detectives".[1]​ El asistente de Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, relató los casos del genio detective desde 1934 hasta 1975 .

Las historias de Nero Wolfe fueron nominadas como Mejor Serie de Misterio del Siglo en Bouchercon 2000, la mayor convención de libros de misterio del mundo, y Rex Stout fue nominado como Mejor Escritor de Misterio del Siglo.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 1. diciembre 1886 – 27. octubre 1975   •   Otros nombres رکس استوت, Ռեքս Ստաուտ, 雷克斯·史陶德
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Rex Stout: Frases en inglés

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

Rex Stout libro The Rubber Band

Fuente: The Rubber Band

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

Rex Stout libro Might as Well Be Dead

Fuente: 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 libro The League of Frightened Men

Fuente: 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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