My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria.” — Robert B. Parker Flower Copy Share Image
“and tested room service. I left her at work Monday” — Robert B. Parker Room service Copy Share Image
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University — Robert B. Parker Education Copy Share Image
“It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Because I love you,” I said. “Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.” — Robert B. Parker Life 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
She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said,… — Robert B. Parker Detectives Copy Share Image
“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.” — Robert B. Parker Laughter 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
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
“I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan’s picture on my desk. Let us be true… — Robert B. Parker Silence Copy Share Image
“How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?” I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. “Exploit the… — Robert B. Parker Alimony Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Book Copy Share Image
“Mary Lou Buckman and I sat in the first booth, and I, mindful of Wild Bill Hickok, sat facing the door.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to… — Robert B. Parker Cell phone Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It’s just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get… — Robert B. Parker Meditation 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
“After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked… — Robert B. Parker Beer Copy Share Image
“Say it turns out to be the gun, and it’s going to be major-league coincidence if it doesn’t, you’re going to want… — Robert B. Parker Noir 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
“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
“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
“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 sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I’d… — Robert B. Parker Blue sky 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
“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
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Noir 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
“Candy nodded absently. “Okay,” she said. “What shall I wear?” “A gun,” I said.” — Robert B. Parker Noir Copy Share Image
