You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

- Robert B. Parker

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

- Robert B. Parker

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

- Robert B. Parker

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 i…

- Robert B. Parker

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

- Robert B. Parker

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted th…

- Robert B. Parker

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

- Robert B. Parker

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't kn…

- Robert B. Parker

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

- Robert B. Parker