Robert B. Parker

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. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#day #herself #his #i #interesting

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#even #five #i #i write #pages

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

— Robert B. Parker

#best #best work #done #droves #ever

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#follow #her #i #joan #life

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#because #forty-one #here #i #i think

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#found #got #her #i #intolerable

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#competition #i #need #people #starting

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#i #strong #teaching #too #university

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

#back #be kind #book #color #coming

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

— Robert B. Parker

#books #falcon #few #stole #very