"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."

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"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."

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"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."

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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."

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

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"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."

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"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."

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