Rex Stout

Nació 1886 · Murió 1975

De Noblesville, Indiana, United States · Nacionalidad: United States · Escribe ficción

Rex Todhunter Stout (1 de diciembre de 1886 – 27 de octubre de 1975) fue un escritor estadounidense reconocido por su narrativa policíaca. Sus personajes más célebres son el detective Nero Wolfe y su ayudante Archie Goodwin, protagonistas de 33 novelas y 39 novelas cortas o relatos publicados entre 1934 y 1975.

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“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 DetecEn inglés
“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”
Invitation to Learning, p. 246En inglés
“A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.”
"Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."En inglés
“You watch a good second baseman digging for a badly thrown ball without letting his foot leave base and it’s the same beautiful impossibility as a good pas de deux in Swan Lake.”
"Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."En inglés
“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.”
"Talk with Rex Stout"En inglés