Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker
Robert Brown Parkerwas an American crime writer. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 September 1932
CountryUnited States of America
If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.
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!
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.
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
There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.
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.
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.