Famous quotes containing the words robert m, robert and/or parker:
“Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can’t resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)
“Enjoyed it! One more drink and I’d have been under the host.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)