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All Robert B. Parker Quotes
Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.
Robert B. Parker
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She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.
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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 sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
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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 some people like it.
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My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
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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 boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
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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. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
Robert B. Parker
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I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
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It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
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Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
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For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
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They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
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Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
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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 writing it!
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