Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon
Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?
rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.
If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.
Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them
War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.
Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.
None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.
It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.
I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.