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Robert B. Parker Quotes
Page 2 of 2Robert B. Parker
September 17, 1932 -
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer
|  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. | | 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!' | | I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. | | 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. | | 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 finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it. | | 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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