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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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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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[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
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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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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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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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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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You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
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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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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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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.
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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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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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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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A police state is a country run by criminals
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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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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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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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