“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 Inferiority complex 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
“... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.” — Robert Harris Archangel 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 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 Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.” — Robert Harris Money 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 Doe 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
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Character 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
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
“at that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood… — Robert Harris War 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
“any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger.… — Robert Harris Life Copy Share Image
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was… — Robert Harris Blind Copy Share Image
“Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.” — Robert Harris Archangel 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
“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
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
“Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor,… — Robert Harris 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
