Quotes About Parker

I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

A few hours after the news broke about the death of crime writer Donald E. Westlake, a newspaper asked me to write a tribute. In short order I did so, calling attention to his decades-long career, both under his own name and that of his primary alter ego, Richard Stark, who introduced the unsentimental antihero-heister Parker to the literary canon.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Advance praise for BAD MEDICINE by Geoffrey M. Cooper Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 3

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

Many of these books were quite good, most were middle-of-the-road, and a few brought to mind a review by Dorothy Parker, in which she stated, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

It takes about seventy-five pages for a Parker reference - from 'The Score,' specifically - to show up in Geoff Manaugh's 'A Burglar's Guide to the City.'

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

I love scary movies! My two favorites are pretty neck and neck: 'The Orphanage' and 'The Strangers.'

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.

A Haiku is just like a normal American poem except that it doesn't rhyme and it's totally stupid.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

To live outcast from your own kind, laughed at and mocked by most mortals. Living in a hovel, barely scraping by. Spurning wealth and fame. Why do you do it?" "I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.