Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes

United States, Author
July 17, 1889 – March, 11, 1970.

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.

Also known as Lawyer, Writer

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.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Sound
- Certain
- Principles
The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Reason
- Faces
- Eternity

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.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Dislike
- Rating
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!

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Opinion
- Stories
- Please
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.

Erle Stanley Gardner
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.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Writing
- Trouble
- Guidance
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Writing
- Stories
- Fiction
Courage is the antidote to danger.

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Danger
- Antidote

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

Erle Stanley Gardner
- Nice
- Said