Rex Stout Quote

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"

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...