“ I was someplace the other day. Too modest. I was winning the prestigious Hale Award, which is given annually in Newport, New Hampshire for anyone who'll go up and accept it. I don't get that many awards, friends. So it was a three-hour drive? ”
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“ There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce. ”
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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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“ 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. ”
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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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“ Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around. ”
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“ I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained. ”
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“ Joan and I separated in 1982 and reunited in 1984, at which time we had arrived at the conclusion that it probably wasn't a good idea for us to share the same living space twenty-four hours a day. ”
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“ I love Joan's indomitability and intelligence. She's very courageous. And she's a hell of a kisser. ”
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“ On the big issues, Joan and I are amazingly in tune, but on the creature-comfort level, we're incompatible. ”
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“ I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ”
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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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“ I rarely write Spenser: For Hire. The ABC series is based on characters created by me, and I serve on the program as a consultant. As we all know, a consultant's first responsibility is to deposit the check every week. After that, I read each script and make suggestions. ”
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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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“ 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. ”
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“ I rarely write Spenser: For Hire. The ABC series is based on characters created by me, and I serve on the program as a consultant. As we all know, a consultant's first responsibility is to deposit the check every week. After that, I read each script and make suggestions. ”
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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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“ I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ”
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“ On the big issues, Joan and I are amazingly in tune, but on the creature-comfort level, we're incompatible. ”
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“ For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. ”
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“ 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!'. ”
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“ I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained. ”
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“ She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. ”
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“ For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. ”
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“ 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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