You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris 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 Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Harris Day Copy Share Image
“Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Father Copy Share Image
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win… — Robert Harris Election Copy Share Image
“I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it… — Robert Harris Reading Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — Robert Harris Life Copy Share Image
“I guess you’re familiar with Moore’s Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which… — Robert Harris Technology Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Books 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
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 Copy Share Image
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats,… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four… — Robert Harris Day Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — 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
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
“It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the… — Robert Harris 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 Cats 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 Copy Share Image
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality… — Robert Harris 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris 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
“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
“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
“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
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. — Robert Harris Bloodsuckers 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 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
“A crock of shit,” Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
![“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)” quote by Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a0/robert-harris-2039_life_the-struggle-for-existence-almost-invari_2506732.png)
