The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris Dominate Copy Share Image
“In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?” — Robert Harris Emotion Copy Share Image
“The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the… — Robert Harris Nature Copy Share Image
“No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove… — Robert Harris Conscience Copy Share Image
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. — Robert Harris Done Copy Share Image
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. — Robert Harris Bloodsuckers Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. — Robert Harris Dawn Copy Share Image
“Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. ‘Oh, I can see what you’re thinking, Hartmann. “What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman!… — Robert Harris Car salesman Copy Share Image
“He was unable to get it out of his mind. Was it really possible that he had spent the past thirty years… — Robert Harris Accusation Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Books 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
“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had… — Robert Harris Christian 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 About Copy Share Image
“like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning,… — Robert Harris History Copy Share Image
“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.” — Robert Harris Psychology Copy Share Image
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is… — Robert Harris Always 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
“And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.” — Robert Harris Crop Copy Share Image
“Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,… — Robert Harris Cicero Copy Share Image
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the… — Robert Harris Balls Copy Share Image
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that… — Robert Harris Again 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 Hannibal Copy Share Image
