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 More Quotes by Robert B. Parker More Quotes From Robert B. Parker Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University Robert B. Parker university strong teaching 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 senior girl school 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. Robert B. Parker mit college gone 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. Robert B. Parker names giving reality We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. Robert B. Parker iron growing-up self 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. Robert B. Parker bullets harm would-be 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. Robert B. Parker pieces education years Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences. Robert B. Parker different-experiences opinion said 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. Robert B. Parker giving-up boys son 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 umpires writing ideas Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. Robert B. Parker weekend organize social This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. Robert B. Parker girl limits thinking Yeah. Floyd is his batman. Robert B. Parker yeah money 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker done reading yesterday Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker. Robert B. Parker would you publish care It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. Robert B. Parker live think life way 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 me be-kind money book Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. Robert B. Parker someone think you writing With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now. Robert B. Parker maybe leave just now I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. Robert B. Parker say just painful enough
