Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond… — Robert Harris Beyond Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Better Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Education Copy Share Image
“...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...” — Robert Harris Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the… — Robert Harris Awake Copy Share Image
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four… — Robert Harris Day Copy Share Image
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast.… — Robert Harris Big Copy Share Image
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality… — Robert Harris Blair 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
“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
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
“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
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is… — Robert Harris About 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 All things Copy Share Image
“Bachelors of forty are society’s stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;” — Robert Harris Cats Copy Share Image
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time… — Robert Harris About Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Big Copy Share Image
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up… — Robert Harris Causes 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… — Robert Harris Genius Copy Share Image
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris Bars Copy Share Image
“But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once… — Robert Harris Politician Copy Share Image
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to… — Robert Harris Body Copy Share Image
“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity -… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the… — Robert Harris Age Copy Share Image
“A voice came out of the darkness. 'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.” — Robert Harris Darkness 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… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that… — Robert Harris Available Copy Share Image
“Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.” — Robert Harris Another day Copy Share Image
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win… — Robert Harris Election Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Father Copy Share Image
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The… — Robert Harris Appeals Copy Share Image
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. — Robert Harris Day Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris About 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
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
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
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
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