20 Quotes by Robert Parker
- Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
- They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
- Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
- She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.
- Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
- If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
- My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
- With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.
- Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.
- I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.
- I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
- I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
- I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
- I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
- For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
- College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
- 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
- I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
- I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
- Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
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