I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters. — Robert Harris Heart Copy Share Image
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.” — Robert Harris Flower Copy Share Image
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature. — Robert Harris Crime Copy Share Image
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris Bring Copy Share Image
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life. — Robert Harris Details Copy Share Image
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. — Robert Harris Being Copy Share Image
“ Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system… — Robert Harris Accept Copy Share Image
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 Buy Copy Share Image
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in… — Robert Harris Amazing Copy Share Image
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics… — Robert Harris Cicero Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and… — Robert Harris Modern world Copy Share Image
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by… — Robert Harris Arise Copy Share Image
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched… — Robert Harris Always Copy Share Image
“Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already… — Robert Harris Respect Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy… — Robert Harris Ambition Copy Share Image
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side… — Robert Harris Any Copy Share Image
“I guess you’re familiar with Moore’s Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which… — Robert Harris Technology Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Books Copy Share Image
“And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels’s great insight. They… — Robert Harris Goebbels Copy Share Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in… — Robert Harris Boring Copy Share Image
“I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it… — Robert Harris Reading Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — Robert Harris Life Copy Share Image
“They weren’t such bad fellows, Hartmann thought. He had mixed with their type all his life: patriotic, conservative, clannish. For them, Hitler… — Robert Harris Bad man Copy Share Image
“The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six… — Robert Harris Avenue Copy Share Image
“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our… — Robert Harris Ancient rome Copy Share Image
“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936 ” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Fiction Copy Share Image
“His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.” — Robert Harris Careful Copy Share Image
“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. — Robert Harris Hands Copy Share Image
![“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)” quote by Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a0/robert-harris-2039_life_the-struggle-for-existence-almost-invari_2506732.jpg)
