If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Business Copy Share Image
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Fiction 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 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 Copy Share Image
“The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: ‘What disturbs and alarms man are not the things… — Robert Harris Epictetus Copy Share Image
“A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It’s so banal.” — Robert Harris 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
“Every evil is easily crushed at birth; allow it to become established and it always gathers strength.” — Robert Harris Evil Copy Share Image
“We never just sit around in the semi-dark and think. Modern information sources leave no time to think.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris 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 found, for example, that Cicero was fond of repeating certain phrases, and these I learned to reduce to a line, or… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Absurd Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing,… — Robert Harris Law of nature 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch,… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our… — Robert Harris Ancient rome Copy Share Image
“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“ Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936 ” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. — Robert Harris Being Copy Share Image
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life. — Robert Harris 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
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. — Robert Harris Events Copy Share Image
