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~ Robert B. Parker Quote
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 Quote
As I say, I'm not sure I'd have undertaken it... Oh, yeah, I would. They were offering me a hell of a lot of money.
~ Robert B. Parker Quote
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.
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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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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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Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
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I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
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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.
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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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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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I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained.
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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!'
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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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Joan and I separated in 1982 and reunited in 1984, at which time we had arrived at the conclusion that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to share the same living space twenty-four hours a day.
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