“For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of...” — Robert B. Parker Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.”

“I'd like to be remembered with affection, with regard, and with just a smallest amount of admiration - that here's a man who walked against the tide.”

“There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.”