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

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

Reading

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

Care

"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

"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

"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!'"

Money

"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."

College

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

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

Discipline

"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!"

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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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