“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker. — Robert B. Parker Blog 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
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. — Robert B. Parker Advice Copy Share Image
“No olive?” I said. “Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini,” — Robert B. Parker Martini Copy Share Image
Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live… — Robert B. Parker 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
“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
“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
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The… — Robert B. Parker Books Copy Share Image
“Corsetti pulled up and parked on 52nd Street in front of an apartment near the river. He put the cop light on… — Robert B. Parker 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
“You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument.” “Wanted is too simple,” Susan said. She had shifted her… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two… — Robert B. Parker 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
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 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
“The thing is,” I said, “that to be what I am, I need to feel the way I do about you. No… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life’s classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold… — Robert B. Parker Life Copy Share Image
“You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said. “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just… — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“There were Palladian windows and a number of roof peaks and an assortment of architectural conceits, all overlooking a vast lawn devoid… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself. — Robert B. Parker Education Copy Share Image
“from Arlington Street and onto the bridge. He had his hands in his coat pockets. “You Spenser?” he said. “Yes.” — Robert B. Parker Spenser Copy Share Image
“The point is not to get hung up on being what you’re supposed to be. If you can, it’s good to do… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“We’ll let the B and E slide,” Quirk said. “But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for… — Robert B. Parker Littering Copy Share Image
“tape on and the car trembled with percussion all the way to Saugus, where Hawk pulled into a Martignetti’s off Route 1… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“They are more inclined to think you’re innocent if you sound like Barbara Walters,” Rita said. “You think Barbara would be a… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.… — Robert B. Parker Flower Copy Share Image
“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.” “Adler?” “Theodor Reik, I think.” — Robert B. Parker Dark Copy Share Image
