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
“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
“His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.” — 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
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products. — Robert Harris Boxer Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider… — Robert Harris Books Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Remember as a child how mommy’s concern made you feel valued? We all need to be valued and attended to, even when… — Robert Harris Child 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.… — Robert Harris Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris British history Copy Share Image
“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been… — Robert Harris Gestapo Copy Share Image
“She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the… — Robert Harris Astonishing Copy Share Image
“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris About Copy Share Image
“I found, for example, that Cicero was fond of repeating certain phrases, and these I learned to reduce to a line, or… — Robert Harris Cicero Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s… — Robert Harris Bigs Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Absurd 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
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
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris Doe Copy Share Image
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. — Robert Harris Blowing Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.” — Robert Harris Civilization Copy Share Image
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. — Robert Harris Coin Copy Share Image
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Business Copy Share Image
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918 ” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82” — Robert Harris Bravery Copy Share Image
“There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.” — Robert Harris Politics Copy Share Image
This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did… — Robert Harris Parties Copy Share Image