Top 27 Quotes by Robert B. Parker

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

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

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.