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Writing Quotes by Robert B. Parker
- Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
- 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…
- 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 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.…
- I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing,…
- 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…
- 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…
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