'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker More Quotes by Robert B. Parker More Quotes From Robert B. Parker Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. Robert B. Parker writingfunnypeople 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 parentwantwriting 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. Robert B. Parker acceptancewritingorder Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. Robert B. Parker blockheardcomplaining Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good. Robert B. Parker coincidencebelieve You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is. Robert B. Parker consequencedo-the-bestdeals 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 creditwritinggiving Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon Robert B. Parker falconbook 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 suggestionstwentieswriting 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. Robert B. Parker winememoriesart The key to growing up well, is being tough enough. Robert B. Parker toughgrowing-upkeys For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. Robert B. Parker admirationgrew-upfather 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. Robert B. Parker keysmenthinking 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 newscausesinteresting 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. Robert B. Parker what-mattersviewspeople There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself. Robert B. Parker palatesubstituteswine 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. Robert B. Parker live-lifetermneeds 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 readingmaythinking I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. Robert B. Parker fivepageswriting 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 termwritingbook
