Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Stanley Ellin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Stanley Ellin.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Stanley Ellin

Stanley Bernard Ellin was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, at the insistence of his wife, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, "The Specialty of the House", appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — © Stanley Ellin
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
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