Zitat des Tages von Robert B. Parker:
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.
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!'
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
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.
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
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!
With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
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.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
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.
Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, 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.
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.
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.
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.