30 Quotes by Erle Stanley Gardner

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.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it.""What weapon is that?" Della Street asked."The truth," Mason said.

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 on all fours and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago.

Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

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.