Robert B. Parker Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

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.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

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.

The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.