Quotes Robert Parker

All Our Yesterdays was unquestionably the best work I have e...

As I say, I'm not sure I'd have undertaken it... Oh, yeah, I...

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writ...

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and adm...

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was pain...

I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty...

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year b...

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I m...

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit ...

I hereby resign from Prudential Insurance Company of America...

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a...

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there a...

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like...

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow n...

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day...

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And s...

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; ...

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it...

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

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one yea...

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't pub...

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore...

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I d...

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at N...

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input i...