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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.

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.

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News

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

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Right

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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Ideas

Will

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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Writing

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

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Writing

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

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Care

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

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Now

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

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.