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!’ Robert B. Parker Read Quote
All Our Yesterdays’ was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
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! Robert B. Parker Read Quote
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. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
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. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
If you want to write, write it. That’s the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don’t send it to me. Don’t show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They’re not going to publish it. Robert B. Parker Read Quote
