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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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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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Heart
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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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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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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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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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?
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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
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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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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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