They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
More Quotes from 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 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.Robert B. Parker
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.
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
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.
Robert B. Parker
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Robert B. Parker
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Books Quotes, Money & Wealth QuotesWe worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
Val Guest
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Mary Astell
Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.
Jason Segel