Rex Stout Writing Quotations

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damned fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the ...

Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.