It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Tags: writing sherlock-holmes craft excellence
The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made."
[Life magazine, December 10, 1965]
Tags: reason decisions brain subconscious
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."
[Life magazine, December 10, 1965]
Tags: reading books nature thought ideas
When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else." (Death of a Doxie)
Rex StoutI saw them. It was impossible to snitch a sample."
He grunted, lowering himself into his chair. "I didn't ask you to."
"Who said you did, but you expected me to. There are three of them in a glass case and the guard has his feet glued."
"What color are they?"
"They're not black."
"Black flowers are never black. What color are they?"
"Well." I considered. "Say you take a piece of coal. Not anthracite. Cannel coal."
"That's black."
"Wait a minute. Spread on it a thin coating of open kettle molasses. That's it."
"Pfui. You haven't the faintest notion what it would look like. Neither have I."
"I'll go buy a piece of coal and we'll try it.
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
Rex StoutWe are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
Rex StoutTags: wisdom foolishness wise luck folly nero-wolfe merits vainity vainer
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