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Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
Robert B. Parker
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Robert B. Parker
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 17
Died: 2010
Died: January 18
Crime Writer
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Robert Brown Parker
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Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
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We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
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Yeah. Floyd is his batman. His what? Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant. You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
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Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
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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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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.
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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 write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
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You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.
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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.
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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.
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This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
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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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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.
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