Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes

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

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Writing, Stories, Checks

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• Courage is the antidote to danger.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Danger, Antidote

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

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Men, Law, Looks

  Erle Stanley Gardner (1983). “Pay Dirt: And Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert”, William Morrow & Company

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• 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

  Government, Order, Law

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• 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

  Real, Writing, Games

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• 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

  Stories, Opinion, Please

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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

  Rating, Mass, Dislike

  Erle Stanley Gardner (1968). “The case of the careless cupid”, Simon & Schuster of Canada, 1969

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

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Nice, Eggs, Said

  Erle Stanley Gardner (2011). “Top of the Heap”, p.206, Titan Books

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• 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

  Simple, Sound, Principles

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