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
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
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
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
“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
“Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,… — Robert Harris Good morning 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
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to… — Robert Harris Backdrop Copy Share Image
“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to… — Robert Harris Choices Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. — Robert Harris Agree Copy Share Image
“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then… — Robert Harris Ancient rome 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
“There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.” — Robert Harris Politics 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 Politics 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
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. — Robert Harris Bloodsuckers Copy Share Image
“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -” — Robert Harris Archangel 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
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. — Robert Harris Blowing Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.” — Robert Harris Archangel 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
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 Credit 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
