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She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

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 was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Robert B. Parker

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!'

Robert B. Parker

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

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

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Robert B. Parker

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!

Robert B. Parker

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

Robert B. Parker

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

Robert B. Parker

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

Robert B. Parker

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Robert B. Parker

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 or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

Robert B. Parker

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Robert B. Parker

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Robert B. Parker

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Robert B. Parker

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.

Robert B. Parker

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

Robert B. Parker

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, I don't know.

Robert B. Parker

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 none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

Robert B. Parker

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 in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

Robert B. Parker

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

Robert B. Parker