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  • If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

    Term  
    Robert B. Parker (2013). “Back Story”, p.165, Oldcastle Books
  • 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

  • There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

  • I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

    "Promised Land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.
  • 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.

    Writing   Parent   Want  
  • Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

    Book  
  • There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

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

    Funny   Writing   People  
  • We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

    "Promised land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.
  • Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

    Robert B. Parker (2009). “Mortal Stakes”, p.167, Dell
  • 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

  • Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

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

    Writing   Pages   Five  
  • 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.

  • The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

  • Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

    Robert B. Parker (2009). “Pale Kings and Princes”, p.108, Dell
  • Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

  • 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, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

  • 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.

  • Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

    Giving  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Writing   Umpires   Ideas  
  • Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

  • You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

    Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK
  • Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

    Robert B. Parker (2009). “Mortal Stakes”, p.167, Dell
  • Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

    "At Home With: Joan And Robert B. Parker; A House Divided, Lovingly" by Susan Diesenhouse, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2001.
  • I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

  • Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

    People  
  • This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

  • College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

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