Erle Stanley Gardner Quotations

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.