I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“A crock of shit,” Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the following day.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
