"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."

Want, Will

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Want quotes

"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Want,

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Want, Desire, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Want,

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Want,

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Want,

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Want,

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Want,

"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Want,

"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

Want,

"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

DeForest Kelley, American Actor

Want,

Explore more quotes by 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."

Recognition

"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."

People

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

Family

"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."

Creativity

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

Life

"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."

Life

"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."

Friendship

"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."

Want

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

Care

"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