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Robert B. Parker Quotes
Robert B. Parker Quotes
Robert B. Parker
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 17
,
1932
Died:
Jan 18
,
2010
Life
Me
Think
Whatever
Will
You
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Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.
Robert B. Parker
You
Care
Publish
Would
Parker
Sincerely
Robert
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Robert B. Parker
Work
Best
Reading
Our
Best Work
Stayed
Unquestionably
Yesterdays
Done
Public
Away
Ever
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.
Robert B. Parker
Life
Hope
Women
Will
Men
My Life
Stage
Think
About
Never
Know
Learned
Any
Things
Number
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
Will
Long
Sit
Down
Point
Write
Come
Ideas
Know
Reached
Where
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
Learning
Achieve
Reading
Whatever
Think
Resonance
Way
Say
Able
Tempting
Part
Simply
Along
Effect
May
Acquired
Amount
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
Life
World
My Life
Important
Important Things
Joan
Married
Give
Given
Writer
Had
Sons
Between
Most
Without
Blink
Boy
Up
Achieved
Being
The Most Important
Choice
Things
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Robert B. Parker
Respect
Father
Daniel
Admiration
Parker
David
Up
Grew
Them
Who
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
Robert B. Parker
Life
Our
Joan
Follow
Weekends
Around
Social
Social Life
Her
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.
Robert B. Parker
You
Will
Whatever
Entirely
Until
Make
Accepted
Going
Want
Screenplay
Them
Ignore
Show
Twenty
Publication
Published
Drafts
Suggestions
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
Robert B. Parker
People
Competition
Advice
Write
Sure
Starting
Need
My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
Robert B. Parker
Son
Old
Older
Think
Because
Am
Odd
Years
Which
Who
Here
Tonight
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.
Robert B. Parker
Day
News
Cause
Slow
Herself
Once
Several
None
Were
His
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Interesting
Us
Really
Show
Sufficiently
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