#out

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. ↗

— Jim Thome

#door #high #high school #i #impression

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. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor. ↗

— Molly Parker

#actor #damaging #i #i think #know

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 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

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

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#course #doing #else #keep #might

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#just #outfit #rat #squirrel #you

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#actor #am #anybody #ever #expect