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| Robert Parker
As I say, I'm not sure I'd have undertaken it... Oh, yeah, I would. They were offering me a hell of a lot of money. 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. I don't want to work hard on a book that is not going to be published in my lifetime. I want the money now! And, of course, I want to see the book published. 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 love Joan's indomitability and intelligence. She's very courageous. And she's a hell of a kisser. 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! 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. 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? I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. 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. Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. 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!' 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. 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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