List of Robert B. Parker Quotes

Has Anyone Ever Told You," I Said, "that You Coalesce Reality?" "no. They Only Say That I'm Good In The Sack." "they Are Accurate But Limited," I Said. "and If You Give Me Their Names I'll Kill Them.

Yeah. Floyd Is His Batman.

Fourteen Years In The Professor Dodge Has Taught Me That One Can Argue Ingeniously On Behalf Of Any Theory, Applied To Any Piece Of Literature. This Is Rarely Harmful, Because Normally No-one Reads Such Essays.

Joan Organizes Our Social Life, And On Weekends I Follow Her Around.

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.

We Split A Bottle Of Norman Cider. Not Everybody Sells Norman Cider By The Bottle.

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

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.

This Was 1954, Friends. The Girls' Dorm Was Off Limits. Even To Girls, I Think.

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.

There's Something About Being Able To Literally Consume A Work Of Art - Then To Divide All That Pleasure Of It - Because It's A Memory. A Great Wine For Me Is A Memory, It's An Extraordinary Experience.

I Took My .38 Out And Looked To See That There Were Bullets In All The Proper Places. I Knew There Would Be, But It Did No Harm To Be Careful. And I'd Seen Clint Eastwood Do It Once In The Movies.