Robert B. Parker Quotes

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

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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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• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven’t got a clue what the hell I’m doing.

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• With so much at stake maybe I’ll just leave now.

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

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

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• Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

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Robert B. Parker (27)

Birth:	17th September, 1932
Death:	18th January, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced.

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