Robert B. Parker
Writer
1932-09-17
Books by Robert B. Parker
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The Godwulf manuscript
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The Widening Gyre
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Split Image
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Quotes by Robert B. Parker
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Rachel drank some more bourbon. "What I am trying to do," she said, —is tothank you. And to say it as genuinely as I can. I do thank you. I will remember aslong as I live when you came into the room and got me, and I will alwaysremember when you killed them, and I was glad, and you came and we put ourarms around each other. And I will always remember that you cried.
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...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me. Fraser said, Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back? Hell, no, I said. Everyone else does.
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It's like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.
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Yeah. Floyd is his batman.His what?Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant.You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
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...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me. Fraser said, Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back? Hell, no, I said. Everyone else does.
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It's like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.
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Rachel drank some more bourbon. "What I am trying to do," she said, —is tothank you. And to say it as genuinely as I can. I do thank you. I will remember aslong as I live when you came into the room and got me, and I will alwaysremember when you killed them, and I was glad, and you came and we put ourarms around each other. And I will always remember that you cried.
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Yeah. Floyd is his batman.His what?Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant.You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
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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.
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Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
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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.
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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.
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