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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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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 long time.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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 quite scary.
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
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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.
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