Quotes by Erle Stanley Gardner

About Erle Stanley Gardner:

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author. Though best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces, as well as a series of non-fiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
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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

Courage is the antidote to danger.

Erle Stanley Gardner

A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls and was decided sev...

Erle Stanley Gardner

You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He believed a dollar represented a token of work performed, that men were given these tokens to hold until they needed the p...

Erle Stanley Gardner

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameErle Stanley Gardner
  • DescriptionLawyer, novelist, travel writer
  • BornJuly 17, 1889
  • DiedMarch 11, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Lawyer; Novelist