Robert B. Parker

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#detectives #guns #humor #irony #machos

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#writing-craft

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#humor #religon #spenser #humor

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

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

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

#caught #dorm #even #friends #got

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

#down #i #ideas #know #long

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

— Robert B. Parker

#had #i #just #painful #say

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

#any #hope #i #i have learned #i think

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#cause #does #finally #get #gets

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

#actually #am #book #going #i