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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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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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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 desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
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