What did Rex Stout mean by: I still can’t decide which is more fun – reading or writing. - Rex Stout Author Copy
+ A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Library, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Data, Statistics, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Choice, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Control, Flexibility, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold – if you have one. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Brain, Learn, Memory, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Consequence, Gender roles, Responsibility, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ Dignities are like faces; no two are the same. Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Rex Stout, Dignity, Faces, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Rex Stout, Rude, 0 - Rex Stout Author
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
