It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
