I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
From Rex Stout
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Everything in a story should be credible.
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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