This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I want her with me,” I said, “and more than that, I want her to want to be with me.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“To say that Susan shopped would be like saying that sharks eat. It was disciplined frenzy. While” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ,” she said. “You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer.” — Robert B. Parker Jesus Copy Share Image
You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is. — Robert B. Parker Ability Copy Share Image
“The best moments in my life,” I said, “have come because I loved somebody.” “Yeah,” he said. “And the worst,” I said.” — Robert B. Parker Best moments Copy Share Image
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably… — Robert B. Parker Drinking Copy Share Image
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What… — Robert B. Parker Ideas Copy Share Image
“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to… — Robert B. Parker Mirror Copy Share Image
“Pearl eyed a man and woman walking by in funny hats. Her whole body stiffened with the desire to bark at them.… — Robert B. Parker Man and woman Copy Share Image
“She wore a lot of makeup, badly applied. There was lipstick on her teeth. If she’d been a dancer, it must have… — Robert B. Parker Dance Copy Share Image
“I think you’ve never quite altogether forgiven yourself for that woman in Los Angeles all that time ago.” “Candy Sloan,” I said.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight.… — Robert B. Parker Last place Copy Share Image
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You… — Robert B. Parker Army Copy Share Image
“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making… — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
“I guess I mean that nature hates a vacuum. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance… — Robert B. Parker Nature Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She… — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
“I try to be honorable. I know that's embarrassing to hear. It's embarrassing to say. But I believe most of the nonsense… — Robert B. Parker Live life Copy Share Image
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The women looked naked, in a way that women never do in skin magazines. These women were real, with the fine roughening… — Robert B. Parker Nakedness Copy Share Image
“I’ve spent a lot of my time alone, and I have learned to treat myself as if I were a family. I… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacomin, which neither of them like much. "Can you… — Robert B. Parker Dogs Copy Share Image
“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked… — Robert B. Parker Christmas morning Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — Robert B. Parker Cherry pie Copy Share Image
“All that rampant machismo, all that rancorous capitalism… You know that the two are really mirror images of each other,” Sherry said.… — Robert B. Parker Machismo Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”… — Robert B. Parker Failure Copy Share Image
“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for… — Robert B. Parker Children Copy Share Image
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. — Robert B. Parker Life Copy Share Image
“What we have here,” I said, “is a roomful of culprits, with varying levels of culpritude.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Shopping is never over,” Susan said. “It is merely suspended.” — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. — Robert B. Parker Advice Copy Share Image
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
