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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing."
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"I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective."
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"I just want to be more regular."
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"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."
Knowledge
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
Family
"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."
Writing
"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
Education
"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."
Life
"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."
Now
"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."
Care
"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
Discipline
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