Robert B. Parker Quotes

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• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
• Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University
• Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon
• It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is…
• You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.
• Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the…
• I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can…
• 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…
• 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…
• Yeah. Floyd is his batman.
• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
• This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
• Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
• 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,…
• This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication.…

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