Robert Harris Quotes

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• Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
• History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
• I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a…
• I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
• I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
• I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
• If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
• In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
• It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
• It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
• My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
• My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
• One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's…
• Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
• Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
• Storytelling has a narcotic power.
• The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
• The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
• 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.
• You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

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