Robert B. Parker Quotes

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

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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

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  Block, Complaining, Heard

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• 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.

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  Writing, Parent, Want

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

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  Deals, Do The Best, Consequence

  Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Writing, Acceptance, Order

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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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  Writing, Pages, Five

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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.

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  Live Life, Needs, Term

  Robert B. Parker (2013). “Back Story”, p.165, Oldcastle Books

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

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  Growing Up, Keys, Tough

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• 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.

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  What Matters, Views, People

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

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  Believe, Coincidence

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Pale Kings and Princes”, p.108, Dell

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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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  Book, Writing, Term

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• Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

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  Different Experiences, Opinion, Said

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

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  Book, Falcon

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• 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.

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  Art, Memories, Wine

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

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  Wine, Substitutes, Palate

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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.

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  Writing, Twenties, Suggestions

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

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  Reading, Yesterday, Done

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

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  Strong, Teaching, University

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Keys

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• 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.

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  Reading, Army, Stuff

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Umpires, Ideas

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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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  Writing, Giving, Credit

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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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  Father, Admiration, Grew Up

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell

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• 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.

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  Interesting, News, Causes

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• 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.

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  Would Be, Bullets, Harm

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

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