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Writing Quotes by Robert Harris
- I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words…
- It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and…
- Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
- 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.
- It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
- Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the…
- Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
- One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different…
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