Frasi di Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout è stato uno scrittore statunitense, capace di unificare due fra i generi - tradizionalmente separati - della narrativa poliziesca: il giallo d'azione americano e il giallo all'inglese, più intellettuale . Questi due aspetti si incarnano nei suoi personaggi più famosi, Archie Goodwin e Nero Wolfe. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Dicembre 1886 – 27. Ottobre 1975   •   Altri nomi رکس استوت, Ռեքս Ստաուտ, 雷克斯·史陶德
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“Per lui qualunque cosa con una gonna è una signora.”

Archie Goodwin parla di Fritz
Orchidee nere

“Il bello non esiste in natura.”

Nero Wolfe
La traccia del serpente

Rex Stout: Frasi in inglese

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

Rex Stout libro Sei per uno

Origine: The Rubber Band

“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”

Rex Stout libro La traccia del serpente (romanzo)

Origine: Fer-de-Lance

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

Rex Stout libro Might as Well Be Dead

Origine: 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

Origine: 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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