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Robert Harris

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
— Robert Harris time
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
— Robert Harris life
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
— Robert Harris power
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
— Robert Harris murder
It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
— Robert Harris people
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.
— Robert Harris novel
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
— Robert Harris time
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.
— Robert Harris words
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
— Robert Harris people
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
— Robert Harris business
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
— Robert Harris war
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
— Robert Harris world
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
— Robert Harris world
We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
— Robert Harris
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
— Robert Harris life
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
— Robert Harris war
You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
— Robert Harris self
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.
— Robert Harris work
I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.
— Robert Harris man
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.
— Robert Harris body
For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
— Robert Harris people
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.
— Robert Harris politics
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
— Robert Harris love
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 perspective on the present.
— Robert Harris writing
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
— Robert Harris time
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - its like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe youve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
— Robert Harris time

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